Alabama · Private foundation
The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 61
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 56 | $1.4M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $1.4M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $1,501,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc | $1,500,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | $436,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem | $407,000 | 6 | 2% |
| American Friends of the Peres Institute for Peace Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Fuse Project | $220,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience | $154,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Children of the World Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Congregation Bnai Jeshurun | $143,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion · The Ee Delaney Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee
- How much does The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee give?
- The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee reported 57 grants totaling $1,359,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Science & Tech (19%), Religion (15%).
- Who are The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($1.5M), American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($1.5M), Jewish Theological Seminary of America ($436k).
- Does The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Hearin - Chandler Foundation, Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee.
- Where is The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee based?
- The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee is based in AL.
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