Virginia · Private foundation
The Imperial Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,267,880
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Imperial Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 36 | $2.4M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $118k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $123k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $115k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $96k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $105k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Va Foundation for Independent Colleges | $110,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Academy Center of the Arts Inc | $66,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Virginia Episcopal School | $64,000 | 6 | n/a |
| United Way of Central Virginia Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Decorative Arts Trust | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Coker University | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Corporation for Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Centra Health Foundation | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Imperial Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Liberty University Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Old Dominion Box Co Foundation Inc · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Foster Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation
How this is measured
About The Imperial Charitable Trust
- How much does The Imperial Charitable Trust give?
- The Imperial Charitable Trust reported 36 grants totaling $2,430,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Imperial Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (88%), Arts & Culture (6%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are The Imperial Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Va Foundation for Independent Colleges ($111k), Academy Center of the Arts Inc ($67k), Virginia Episcopal School ($64k).
- Does The Imperial Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Imperial Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Imperial Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, The Al Stroobants Foundation, Centra Health Inc.
- Where is The Imperial Charitable Trust based?
- The Imperial Charitable Trust is based in VA.
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