Virginia · Private foundation
Sterzing 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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 34
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Sterzing Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $115k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $98k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $98k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan House Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Reach Foundation Inc (Reach Enriches All Children) | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Norfolk Botanical Garden Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stillstanding2 | $10,000 | 2 | 59% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sterzing Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · The Dalis Foundation · Townebank Foundation · The Townsend Family Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Wards Corner Lions Club Charity Foundation Inc · Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson · L & J Goldrich Foundation
How this is measured
About Sterzing Charitable Trust
- How much does Sterzing Charitable Trust give?
- Sterzing Charitable Trust reported 40 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 34 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Sterzing Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Health (15%), Animals (13%).
- Who are Sterzing Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee ($15k), Samaritan House Inc ($15k), Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ($15k).
- Does Sterzing Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sterzing 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 Sterzing Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of South Hampton Roads, Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Sterzing Charitable Trust based?
- Sterzing Charitable Trust is based in VA.
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