Kentucky · Private foundation
Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $23M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 183
- Grants FY2024
- 162
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 89 to 162
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 32
- Total assets, FY2024
- $457M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 176 | $21M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 162 | $18M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 153 | $15M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 141 | $8.9M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 140 | $7.3M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 135 | $7.2M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 110 | $5.1M | 36% |
| FY2017 | 89 | $5.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baptist Health Foundation Paducah Inc | $3,845,000 | 6 | 42% |
| Support Our Aging Religious Inc | $3,500,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Lifeline Recovery Center Inc | $3,145,750 | 7 | 26% |
| Gods Pit Crew Inc | $2,300,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Seaton Catholic Schools Inc | $2,230,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc | $1,950,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $1,505,064 | 7 | 1% |
| Living Lands & Waters | $1,296,000 | 7 | 20% |
| St Mary School System | $1,202,200 | 8 | n/a |
| Roads to Life Tanzania Inc | $1,181,000 | 8 | 36% |
Show all 230 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 192 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: Community Foundation of West Kyinc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Charity League Inc · United Way of Western Kentucky · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust
- How much does Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust give?
- Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust reported 183 grants totaling $22,849,935 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 162 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Philanthropy (15%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Baptist Health Foundation Paducah Inc ($3.8M), Support Our Aging Religious Inc ($3.5M), Lifeline Recovery Center Inc ($3.1M).
- Does Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Kyinc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust based?
- Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust is based in KY.
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