Missouri · Private foundation
Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $375k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $145k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 62
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 7% of the organizations Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 7 | $145k | 14% |
| FY2025 | 27 | $396k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $640k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $614k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $462k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $427k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $333k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $335k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys Club of Brazos County Inc | $466,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center | $429,423 | 8 | 3% |
| Health for All Inc | $142,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Bryan-College Station Habitat for Humani | $105,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Baylor University | $103,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly | $94,423 | 6 | 0% |
| Hospice Brazos Valley Inc | $86,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bryan ISD Education Foundation | $81,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Goodland Inc | $74,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation · Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation · Virginia & Christian Groneman Charitable · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable · Orr James Donald Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust
- How much does Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust give?
- Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust reported 7 itemized grants totaling $145,000, out of $375,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 62 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (18%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Boys Club of Brazos County Inc ($466k), Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center ($429k), Health for All Inc ($142k).
- Does Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Winkler Nina Astin Trust, Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust, Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust.
- Where is Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust based?
- Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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