Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Urban Charitable 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.
- $29k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 58
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations The Urban Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 48 | $29k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $32k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $14k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $18k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Ships International | $10,900 | 4 | 0% |
| The Animal Rescue League | $5,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $4,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Covenant House | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Francis House Inc | $2,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Finca International Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Urban 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Urban Charitable Trust
- How much does The Urban Charitable Trust give?
- The Urban Charitable Trust reported 49 grants totaling $28,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 58 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Urban Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), International (23%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Urban Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mercy Ships International ($11k), The Animal Rescue League ($5k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($5k).
- Does The Urban Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Urban Charitable 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 Urban Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Urban Charitable Trust based?
- The Urban Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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