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The Fruth Christian Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$92k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Fruth Christian Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving10$44k60%
FY20236$44k50%
FY20226$42k33%
FY20215$95k20%
FY202010$60k60%
FY20195$22k40%
FY20187$18kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$188kInternational$30kEducation$30kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$15kHealth$12kFood & Nutrition$5kYouth Development$750Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
MotoHope Mission Inc$30,00043%
Messiah University$30,00030%
Paxton Street Home Benevolent Society$25,00030%
Sweeten Life Systems$17,00042%
In Touch Ministries Inc$14,00030%
Curesz Foundation$7,00033%
Faith and Learning International NFP$5,00010%
Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In$5,0001n/a
Young Life$75010%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fruth Christian Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMotoHope Mission Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMessiah University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPaxton Street Home Benevolent Society: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSweeten Life Systems: $17,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetIn Touch Ministries Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCuresz Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFaith and Learning International NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Life: $750 over 1y, 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 8.

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 FoundationWA3.1× affinity6 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 Fruth Christian Trust

How much does The Fruth Christian Trust give?
The Fruth Christian Trust reported 10 grants totaling $43,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Fruth Christian Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (58%), International (9%), Education (9%).
Who are The Fruth Christian Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: MotoHope Mission Inc ($30k), Messiah University ($30k), Paxton Street Home Benevolent Society ($25k).
Does The Fruth Christian Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Fruth Christian 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 Fruth Christian Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Fruth Christian Trust based?
The Fruth Christian Trust is based in OH.

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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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