Florida · Private foundation
Ross J Born and Wendy G Born 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.
- $377k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $113,877
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 73
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 73 | $260k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $265k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $196k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $149k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $133k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $208k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $109k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $98k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley | $472,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center of Allentown | $251,436 | 8 | 2% |
| Jewish Family Service | $42,070 | 7 | n/a |
| Lehigh Valley Justice Institute | $25,200 | 3 | 4% |
| Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc | $20,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Ofanim Inc | $20,116 | 5 | 0% |
| Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sights for Hope | $14,200 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ross J Born and Wendy G Born 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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Amaranth Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Shaffer Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust
- How much does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust give?
- Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust reported 75 grants totaling $377,468 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 73 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (65%), Human Services (15%), Health (3%).
- Who are Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley ($472k), Jewish Community Center of Allentown ($251k), Jewish Family Service ($42k).
- Does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born 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 Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Air Products Foundation.
- Where is Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust based?
- Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust is based in FL.
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