Texas · Private foundation
R S Gernon Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $109k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2026
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 25% of the organizations R S Gernon Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 21 | $109k | 10% |
| FY2025 | 20 | $107k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $103k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $90k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $73k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madonna Place Inc | $42,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Operation Fuel Incorporated | $33,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Safe Futures Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Martin House Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Incorporated | $27,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Always Home Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| STEPS Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 5% |
| United Community and Family Servicesinc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Read to Grow Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($156k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget R S Gernon 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Elsie a Brown Fund Inc
How this is measured
About R S Gernon Trust
- How much does R S Gernon Trust give?
- R S Gernon Trust reported 21 grants totaling $109,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does R S Gernon Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Housing & Shelter (22%), Health (15%).
- Who are R S Gernon Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Madonna Place Inc ($42k), Operation Fuel Incorporated ($33k), Safe Futures Inc ($31k).
- Does R S Gernon Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does R S Gernon Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as R S Gernon Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chelsea Groton Foundation, Dime Bank Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc.
- Where is R S Gernon Trust based?
- R S Gernon Trust is based in TX.
Play a game based on R S Gernon’s filings →