Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $195,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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 | 34 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $1.2M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.2M | 28% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $1.1M | 70% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa of Venango County Inc | $890,500 | 9 | 85% |
| Community Services of Venango County Inc | $882,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Keystone Smiles Community Learning Center Inc | $825,126 | 6 | 5% |
| Child Development Centers Inc | $612,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Youth Alternatives INC | $560,000 | 5 | 36% |
| United Way of Venango County and Titusville Region | $383,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Abc Life Center Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Boys and Girls Club Along the Allegheny | $165,000 | 3 | 66% |
| Mustard Seed Missions of Venango County | $160,000 | 3 | 37% |
| The Scenic Rivers Young Men's Christian Association | $147,025 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Edith C Justus Tuw · Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable Trust · Eileen J Luce Charitable Trust · Upmc Group · Alfred H Lander and Janet L Lander Family · Northwest Institute of Research
How this is measured
About Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust
- How much does Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust give?
- Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust reported 35 grants totaling $1,291,033 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Youth Development (18%), Education (12%).
- Who are Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Casa of Venango County Inc ($891k), Community Services of Venango County Inc ($882k), Keystone Smiles Community Learning Center Inc ($825k).
- Does Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation, McElhattan Foundation, Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw.
- Where is Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust based?
- Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust is based in PA.
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