Missouri · Private foundation
Pershing Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 80
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $88M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Pershing Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 83 | $5.2M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $4.7M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $5.0M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $4.9M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $5.2M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $4.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $2,600,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Access Academies | $2,200,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Concordance | $1,600,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Art St Louis | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Rivers Greenway Foundation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Greater St Louis Inc Foundation | $879,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Beyond Housing Inc | $850,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $700,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation | $650,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Refuge and Restoration | $500,000 | 1 | 43% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pershing Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 111 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation
How this is measured
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About Pershing Charitable Trust
- How much does Pershing Charitable Trust give?
- Pershing Charitable Trust reported 83 grants totaling $5,198,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 80 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Pershing Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Education (20%), Health (12%).
- Who are Pershing Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($2.6M), Access Academies ($2.2M), Concordance ($1.6M).
- Does Pershing Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pershing Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pershing 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, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Pershing Charitable Trust based?
- Pershing Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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