Kansas · Private foundation
The Trusler Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $359k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,908
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Trusler Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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 | 13 | $355k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $362k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $350k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $308k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $206k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $257k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $376k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Habitat for Humanity International Emporia Area | $125,000 | 2 | 59% |
| Nlc Youth Association | $93,340 | 3 | 25% |
| Emporia Area Chamber Foundation | $91,500 | 2 | 30% |
| Hetlinger Developmental Services I | $84,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Camp Wood YMCA Inc | $73,941 | 4 | 1% |
| Emporia Main Street Inc | $72,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Drinkwater & Schriver Mill Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 88% |
| Strong City Preservation Alliance Inc | $64,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Emporia Friends of the Zoo Inc | $58,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($957k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Trusler Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Emporia Community Foundation · Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust · E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation · Jane & Bernard Reeble Foundation · Emil Babinger Charitable Trust · Loretto a Langley Trust · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Turnbull Foundation Trust · United Way of the Flint Hills Inc · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
How this is measured
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About The Trusler Foundation Inc
- How much does The Trusler Foundation Inc give?
- The Trusler Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $358,611 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Trusler Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (13%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are The Trusler Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ($225k), Habitat for Humanity International Emporia Area ($125k), Nlc Youth Association ($93k).
- Does The Trusler Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Trusler Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Trusler Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Emporia Community Foundation, Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust, E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation.
- Where is The Trusler Foundation Inc based?
- The Trusler Foundation Inc is based in KS.
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