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The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center

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.

$168k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 31
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalReligionCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving35$163k14%
FY202430$162k20%
FY202327$157k22%
FY202231$280k23%
FY202123$185k17%
FY202022$133k41%
FY201920$246k100%
FY20173$77kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$526kPhilanthropy$212kCivil Rights$147kHealth$145kCrime & Legal$116kReligion$113kArts & Culture$97kFood & Nutrition$65kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Himmelstein Family Foundation$100,0001n/a
Everyday Zen Inc$85,00068%
The Innocence Project Inc$80,00070%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$80,00070%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$65,00070%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$60,00070%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$56,00070%
International Rescue Committee INC$45,00030%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$40,00040%
Friends Without a Border$30,00070%
J Street Education Fund Inc$27,50060%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$25,00030%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$25,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$23,00040%
Future Now Action$20,0001n/a
Bring Change 2 Mind$17,50040%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$15,00030%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$14,00040%
Smile Train Inc$12,00050%
Jacob Burns Foundation Inc$11,50060%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$10,00030%
Share Our Strength$10,00020%
Wnet$9,00050%
International Campaign for Tibet$9,00030%
Safer Country$8,0004n/a
The Doe Fund Inc$6,00030%
Dorot Inc$5,50070%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$5,00010%
350org$5,00010%
Jacob Burns Film Center Inc$5,00010%
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$4,00040%
Save Ellis Island Inc$2,50030%
Feeding America$2,00020%
Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans Inc$2,00010%
City Harvest Inc$80040%
Christian Herald Association Inc$50020%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$40020%
St Josephs Indian School$3751n/a
Ossining Food Pantry$30020%
Save The Children Federation Inc$2001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($485k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEveryday Zen Inc: $85,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee to Protect Journalists Inc: $56,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends Without a Border: $30,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJ Street Education Fund Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Campaign Legal Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBring Change 2 Mind: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJacob Burns Foundation Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWnet: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Campaign for Tibet: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350org: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacob Burns Film Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRiverside Park Conservancy Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave Ellis Island Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Israel Disabled Veterans Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOssining Food Pantry: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center

How much does The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center give?
The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center reported 36 grants totaling $167,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (35%), Philanthropy (14%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Himmelstein Family Foundation ($100k), Everyday Zen Inc ($85k), The Innocence Project Inc ($80k).
Does The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center 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 Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center based?
The Educational Charitable Trust Aka the Themian Charitable Center is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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