Ohio · Private foundation
The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $105k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 84
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 83 | $105k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 84 | $90k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $95k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $85k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $87k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $84k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grosse Pointe Academy | $26,750 | 6 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $18,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank | $16,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Promedica Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Detroit Mercy | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Middle Creek Academy Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $9,917 | 6 | 0% |
| Waldorf Assoc of Whatcom County | $9,050 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bluffton-Richland Library Foundation | $8,500 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 128 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($156k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Whatcom Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · PeaceHealth · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Little Family Legacy Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · The Dudley Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Sacred Family Causes Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust
- How much does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust give?
- The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust reported 83 grants totaling $104,502 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 84 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (9%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Grosse Pointe Academy ($27k), William Marsh Rice University ($18k), Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ($16k).
- Does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whatcom Community Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Chuckanut Health Foundation.
- Where is The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust based?
- The John E Goerlich Charitable Trust is based in OH.
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