Virginia · Private foundation
May Foundation Trust
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.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,775
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,775
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 48
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations May Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 47 | $79k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $76k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $68k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $59k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $66k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $54k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Place for Youth | $10,885 | 6 | 0% |
| New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Inc | $10,885 | 6 | 17% |
| Berea College | $10,885 | 6 | 0% |
| Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc | $9,935 | 6 | 0% |
| Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) | $9,585 | 6 | 0% |
| Good Radio Shows Inc | $9,585 | 6 | 8% |
| Oasis - a Haven for Women & Children Inc | $9,585 | 6 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $9,585 | 6 | 0% |
| Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc | $9,585 | 6 | 0% |
| Beacon Sloop Club Inc | $9,135 | 6 | 4% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget May Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Borealis Philanthropy · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About May Foundation Trust
- How much does May Foundation Trust give?
- May Foundation Trust reported 49 grants totaling $80,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does May Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Health (16%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are May Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First Place for Youth ($11k), New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Inc ($11k), Berea College ($11k).
- Does May Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does May Foundation Trust 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 May Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is May Foundation Trust based?
- May Foundation Trust is based in VA.
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