Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Cove 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.
- $270k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $41,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Cove Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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 | 19 | $270k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $250k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $252k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $316k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $106k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $208k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $164k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayla's Acres No-Kill Animal Rescue Inc | $145,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Millstone Wildlife Center | $73,666 | 2 | 47% |
| Sippican Lands Trust Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Nicaphoto Inc | $60,885 | 7 | 13% |
| Nica Nadadores Inc | $48,000 | 5 | 7% |
| New Hampshire Turtle Rescue Inc | $43,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hunger Free America Inc | $37,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Food for Free Committee Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc | $31,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($767k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cove Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Cove Charitable Trust
- How much does The Cove Charitable Trust give?
- The Cove Charitable Trust reported 19 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cove Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (18%), Education (12%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are The Cove Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Ayla's Acres No-Kill Animal Rescue Inc ($145k), Buzzards Bay Coalition ($75k), Millstone Wildlife Center ($74k).
- Does The Cove Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cove 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 The Cove Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Trio Foundation of St Louis, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
- Where is The Cove Charitable Trust based?
- The Cove Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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