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Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2026
7
Organizations funded FY2025
14%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$467k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 14% of the organizations Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving5$25k20%
FY20257$24k14%
FY20246$23k17%
FY20235$26k0%
FY20226$25k33%
FY20214$24k0%
FY20205$28k20%
FY20196$25k33%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$83kReligion$36kYouth Development$26kRecreation & Sports$18kHuman Services$18kArts & Culture$9kHousing & Shelter$6kFood & Nutrition$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Fire First Texas: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Summit Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Girls Choir Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoodrich Center for the Deaf Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetScouting America Longhorn Council: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002IL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Morris Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr

How much does Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr give?
Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr reported 5 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (42%), Religion (18%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: WI Cook Foundation Inc ($40k), All Saints Health Foundation ($24k), Camp Fire First Texas ($22k).
Does Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002, Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
Where is Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr based?
Thelma E & Edmund Fahrenkamp Memorial Tr is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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