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Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$379k
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 Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving2$16k0%
FY20242$12k50%
FY20234$16k50%
FY20223$21k33%
FY20215$15k80%
FY20205$24k100%
FY20194$10k100%
FY20187$18k86%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$124kYouth Development$14kHealth$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Central Michigan University$19,8353n/a
Saginaw Valley State University$19,5853n/a
Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State$14,45033%
University of Michigan$7,88522%
Hope College$7,08520%
Madonna University$4,80010%
Alma College$4,80010%
Western Michigan University$4,0001n/a
Grand Valley State University$4,0001n/a
Elmhurst University$3,85010%

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

John & Nesbeth Bees Scholarship FundOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust

How much does Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust give?
Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust reported 2 grants totaling $16,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Youth Development (10%), Health (5%).
Who are Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Michigan University ($20k), Saginaw Valley State University ($20k), Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ($14k).
Does Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John & Nesbeth Bees Scholarship Fund.
Where is Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust based?
Theodore & Elise Huss Memorial Trust is based in OH.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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