Does Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation 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 Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

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Delaware · Private foundation

Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2024: 2
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 19; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 10
Total assets, FY2024: $6.2M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	22	$1.6M	18%
FY2023	2	$110k	50%
FY2022	19	$835k	84%
FY2021	9	$140k	33%
FY2020	7	$110k	43%
FY2019	4	$84k	25%
FY2018	3	$40k	0%
FY2017	3	$40k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$650kAnimals$205kInternational$205kEducation$165kFood & Nutrition$100kReligion$70kHuman Services$70k

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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Westport Volunteer Emergency Medical Services Inc	$450,000	2	33%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Lown Cardiovascular Group Inc	$195,000	7	2%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$175,000	2	0%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc	$150,000	1	1%
Norwalk Hospital Foundation	$150,000	2	1%
Mercy Ships International	$150,000	2	0%
Operation Smile Inc	$125,000	2	0%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc	$115,000	2	0%
Humane World for Animals Inc	$100,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Westport Volunteer Emergency Medical Services Inc	$450,000	2	33%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Lown Cardiovascular Group Inc	$195,000	7	2%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$175,000	2	0%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc	$150,000	1	1%
Norwalk Hospital Foundation	$150,000	2	1%
Mercy Ships International	$150,000	2	0%
Operation Smile Inc	$125,000	2	0%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc	$115,000	2	0%
Humane World for Animals Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Feeding America	$100,000	2	0%
Westport Animal Shelter Advocates	$75,000	2	38%
Jespy House Inc	$60,000	3	0%
Daughters of Israel Inc	$60,000	3	0%
St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc	$55,000	3	1%
The Mooncatcher Project Inc	$55,000	2	18%
Northwell Health Foundation	$55,000	2	0%
Northwell Health Inc	$54,000	3	n/a
New York University	$50,000	1	0%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Saint Barnabas Health Care System Foundation	$40,000	2	1%
Actt Naturally Inc	$30,000	2	12%
Overlook Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
The Maaser Fund Corp	$10,000	1	3%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($395k), not named here.

Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 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

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 23.

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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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust give?: Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust reported 23 grants totaling $1,565,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (51%), Public Safety & Disaster (22%), Animals (7%).
Who are Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Westport Volunteer Emergency Medical Services Inc ($450k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($200k), Lown Cardiovascular Group Inc ($195k).
Does Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation 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 Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust based?: Walter and Marilyn Joy Samuels Charitable Foundation Trust is based in DE.