Virginia · Private foundation
Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $536k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% 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 | 7 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $32k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $29k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $25k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $28k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Richmond Symphony | $65,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic | $57,066 | 9 | 0% |
| The Richmond Ballet | $42,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools | $28,306 | 9 | 0% |
| Northern Neck Orchestra Corporation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Swift Creek Mill Theatre Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Virginia Repertory Theatre | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| TheatreLab Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), 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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Coleman a Hunter - Irr Tr Chari · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Townebank Richmond Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable with peer funders
About Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable
- How much does Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable give?
- Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable reported 7 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Human Services (22%), Education (11%).
- Who are Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Richmond Symphony ($66k), Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic ($57k), The Richmond Ballet ($43k).
- Does Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Coleman a Hunter - Irr Tr Chari.
- Where is Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable based?
- Margarete & Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable is based in VA.
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