Delaware · Private foundation
Robert J and Jennifer J Banks 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.
- $5.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,654
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,520,025
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 8 | $5.5M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $604k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $456k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $594k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $482k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $300k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $292k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $332k | 56% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Lake Ranch Inc | $6,344,909 | 5 | 59% |
| Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation Inc | $1,300,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $401,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Ministries Inc | $95,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Ready for Life Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Bridgeville Area Historical Society | $86,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Saint Paul's School Inc | $66,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Munson Medical Center | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Berkeley Preparatory School Inc | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Dwayne Hawkins Family Foundation Inc D/B/A Crown Automotive Charities · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Guardian Trust Foundation Inc · The H Foundation · Copperhead Charities Inc
How this is measured
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About Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust
- How much does Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust give?
- Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $5,482,039 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (88%), Education (6%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Spring Lake Ranch Inc ($6.3M), Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation Inc ($1.3M), Pennsylvania State University ($401k).
- Does Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert J and Jennifer J Banks 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 Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, Pinellas Community Foundation, Dwayne Hawkins Family Foundation Inc D/B/A Crown Automotive Charities.
- Where is Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust based?
- Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust is based in DE.
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