Alabama · Private foundation
The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $143k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $52,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $143k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $83k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $237k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $149k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $171k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $134k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $103k | 93% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Mobile | $327,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Choctaw County Arts Council Inc | $52,400 | 4 | n/a |
| Mobile Symphony Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Choctaw Alabama Paws Inc | $14,500 | 5 | n/a |
| United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alk Positive Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Choctaw County Historical Museum Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| South Choctaw Academy Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Butler Youth Football League | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| F a I T H Groceries | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($575k), not named here.
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust
- How much does The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust give?
- The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $142,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Religion (25%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Mobile ($328k), Choctaw County Arts Council Inc ($52k), Mobile Symphony Inc ($35k).
- Does The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust based?
- The Ernestine L Lenoir Charitable Trust is based in AL.
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