Minnesota · Private foundation
Olive Dempsey Charitable 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.
- $42k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,791
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,583
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $767k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 12 | $42k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $43k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $38k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $40k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $51k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $39k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $38k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $45k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Works - Thvp | $29,680 | 3 | 1% |
| Lift for Life Academy Inc | $26,083 | 5 | 0% |
| Kipp St Louis | $25,583 | 5 | 0% |
| The Little Bit Foundation | $25,120 | 4 | 0% |
| The Biome School | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Youth in Need | $17,791 | 4 | 0% |
| St Joseph Institute for the Deaf | $17,080 | 4 | 0% |
| Loyola Academy of St Louis | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Peter & Paul Community Services Inc | $14,560 | 4 | 0% |
| Logos Inc | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Olive Dempsey 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Centene Foundation
How this is measured
About Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust
- How much does Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust give?
- Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $42,427 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (21%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Home Works - Thvp ($30k), Lift for Life Academy Inc ($26k), Kipp St Louis ($26k).
- Does Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Olive Dempsey Charitable 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 Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company.
- Where is Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust based?
- Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust is based in MN.
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