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Sam J & Martha Calhoun 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.

$357k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$119,117
Largest grant, FY2024
$119,117
Organizations funded a year
3 to 3
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$7.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$357k0%
FY20233$351k33%
FY20223$416k0%
FY20213$949kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$691kReligion$691kEducation$691k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Smith Baptist Association Inc$691,0544n/a
The Arc of Smith County$691,054450%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($691k), not named here.

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About Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust

How much does Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust give?
Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust reported 3 grants totaling $357,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Religion (33%), Education (33%).
Who are Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Smith Baptist Association Inc ($691k), The Arc of Smith County ($691k).
Does Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sam J & Martha Calhoun 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.
Where is Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust based?
Sam J & Martha Calhoun Charitable Trust is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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