Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Stearns 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.
- $450k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Stearns Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 41 | $430k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $377k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $364k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $298k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $348k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $315k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $350k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $350k | 24% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc | $174,889 | 6 | 11% |
| Woodmere Art Museum | $162,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Compass Family Services | $152,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wheaton College | $119,333 | 6 | 0% |
| Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | $101,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Seekonk Land Conservation Trust | $99,995 | 5 | 54% |
| Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation | $74,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Grace Science Foundation | $70,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $66,388 | 9 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc | $51,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($911k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stearns Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Marin Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Fidelity Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amica Companies Foundation · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Jaket Foundation
How this is measured
About Stearns Charitable Trust
- How much does Stearns Charitable Trust give?
- Stearns Charitable Trust reported 42 grants totaling $450,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stearns Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Stearns Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc ($175k), Woodmere Art Museum ($162k), Compass Family Services ($153k).
- Does Stearns Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stearns 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 Stearns Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
- Where is Stearns Charitable Trust based?
- Stearns Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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