Florida · Private foundation
The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $356k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 43 | $231k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $233k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $200k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $194k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $182k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $181k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $161k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $152k | 68% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Ecumenical Services Council Inc | $125,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Presbyterian Social Ministries Inc | $76,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Basca Inc | $73,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Florida Land Trust Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Florida's First Coast Inc | $45,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Groundwork Jacksonville Inc | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $30,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of James Weldon Johnson Cpms Inc | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($346k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Maryellen S Willis 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust
- How much does The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust give?
- The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust reported 44 grants totaling $356,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Education (12%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Downtown Ecumenical Services Council Inc ($125k), Presbyterian Social Ministries Inc ($76k), Basca Inc ($73k).
- Does The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc, Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc, United Way of Northeast Florida Inc.
- Where is The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust based?
- The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust is based in FL.
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