Illinois · Private foundation
Stella B Gross Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $300k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2026
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 39% of the organizations Stella B Gross Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 17 | $300k | 12% |
| FY2025 | 28 | $475k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $145k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $295k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $295k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $330k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties | $250,000 | 6 | 1% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $147,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey San Jose High School | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| African Diaspora Network | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boy Scouts of America 55 Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Veterans Council Inc | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $52,500 | 5 | n/a |
| San Jose Light Tower Corporation | $50,000 | 2 | 57% |
| Ladies of Charity | $50,000 | 5 | 21% |
| USA West Province Society of Jesus | $45,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stella B Gross Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: The Catholic Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust · The Valley Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Davidson Family Foundation · The Brandenburg Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · American Gift Fund · Ravizza Family Foundation · Mission City Community Fund
How this is measured
About Stella B Gross Charitable Trust
- How much does Stella B Gross Charitable Trust give?
- Stella B Gross Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Stella B Gross Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (34%), Human Services (19%), Health (9%).
- Who are Stella B Gross Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ($250k), President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College ($148k), Cristo Rey San Jose High School ($130k).
- Does Stella B Gross Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stella B Gross Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stella B Gross Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Catholic Community Foundation, Heffernan Group Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Stella B Gross Charitable Trust based?
- Stella B Gross Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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