Illinois · Private foundation
Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $393k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $43,473
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 9 | $393k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $97k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $325k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $330k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $334k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $333k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $321k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $342k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Patricks Parish | $751,312 | 8 | n/a |
| Angels' Place | $280,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Christ Medicus Foundation | $220,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc | $173,473 | 8 | 5% |
| Guest House Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Marian High School | $99,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Mercy High School | $78,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Open Door Outreach Center | $70,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Lourdes Inc | $67,950 | 4 | 0% |
| St Vincent & Sarah Fisher Center | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Patricks Parish | $751,312 | 8 | n/a |
| Angels' Place | $280,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Christ Medicus Foundation | $220,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc | $173,473 | 8 | 5% |
| Guest House Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Marian High School | $99,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Mercy High School | $78,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Open Door Outreach Center | $70,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Lourdes Inc | $67,950 | 4 | 0% |
| St Vincent & Sarah Fisher Center | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Open Door Outreach Center Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Dominican Sisters of Peace Inc | $29,337 | 4 | n/a |
| St Owen Parish Bloomfield Hills | $22,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Loyola High School Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Manresa Jesuit Retreat House | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adrian Rea Literacy Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Abide Ministries Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Adrian Dominican Sisters | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marygrove College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($374k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable 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: Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation · William and Marie Molnar Foundation Corp · The Sehn Foundation · Molinello Family Foundation · Isabel Francis Smith and Ralph Lawrence Smith Foundation · Pat and Gerry Carroll Charitable Foundation · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust
- How much does Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust give?
- Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $393,473 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Health (26%), Human Services (23%).
- Who are Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: St Patricks Parish ($751k), Angels' Place ($280k), Christ Medicus Foundation ($220k).
- Does Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Catholic Foundation of Michigan, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation.
- Where is Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust based?
- Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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