Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,393
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,843
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $208k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $10k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $11k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $9k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $9k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $9k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $9k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $34,814 | 7 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer | $7,408 | 3 | n/a |
| Upmc | $6,963 | 7 | n/a |
| Addiction Recovery Ministry | $2,733 | 1 | 5% |
| Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation | $2,536 | 1 | 0% |
| East End Cooperative Ministry | $2,508 | 1 | 0% |
| North Side Christian Health Center | $2,317 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust
- How much does Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust give?
- Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust reported 4 grants totaling $9,658 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Health (28%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($35k), Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer ($7k), Upmc ($7k).
- Does Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust based?
- Margaret J Biddle Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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