Missouri · Private foundation
Taylor Vern & Esther Char 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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $671k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 4 | $39k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $31k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $36k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $40k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $26k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $26k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Literacy Council of Grand Island Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Grand Island Public Schools Foundation | $17,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Lincoln Inc | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Hall County Leadership Unlimited Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Northwest Education Foundation Inc | $12,200 | 4 | 2% |
| Heartland Lutheran High School | $11,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Chrysalis Lutheran Homes Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mosaic | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand Island Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · The Sherwood Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Fred & Amanda Glade Foundation · Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust
- How much does Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust give?
- Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust reported 4 grants totaling $38,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Philanthropy (12%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Central Community College Foundation Inc ($36k), Literacy Council of Grand Island Inc ($21k), Grand Island Public Schools Foundation ($18k).
- Does Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Taylor Vern & Esther Char 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 Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati, Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc, Greater Grand Island Community Foundation.
- Where is Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust based?
- Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust is based in MO.
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