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Walter H Christen Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$270k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2026
10
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$12,280
Largest grant, FY2026
$97,864
Organizations funded a year
10 to 10
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$4.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Walter H Christen Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Public BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving9$258k11%
FY202510$197k0%
FY202410$186k0%
FY202310$256k10%
FY202210$229k0%
FY202110$223k0%
FY202010$228k30%
FY201910$234k20%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MPhilanthropy$253kEducation$223kArts & Culture$217kPublic Safety & Disaster$108kYouth Development$108kHousing & Shelter$38kPublic Benefit$34k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

George Isaac FoundationOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Isaac Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 H Christen Charitable Trust

How much does Walter H Christen Charitable Trust give?
Walter H Christen Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $269,785 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Walter H Christen Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (54%), Philanthropy (12%), Education (10%).
Who are Walter H Christen Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Promedica Foundation ($329k), The Toledo Museum of Art ($241k), St Luke's Hospital ($200k).
Does Walter H Christen Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Walter H Christen 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 Walter H Christen Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Isaac Foundation, Toledo Community Foundation Inc, Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation.
Where is Walter H Christen Charitable Trust based?
Walter H Christen Charitable Trust is based in PA.

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 18 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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