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Charles Loehr Charitable Trust

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 34-6792962. Reported 28 grants totalling $161,384 to 14 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,079median grant
$161,384granted, 2021-2024
14organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$971,148assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Charles Loehr Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,079. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $7,000; the smallest was $3,219 and the largest $8,206. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
25 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
National Inventors Hall of Fame IncNorth Canton, OH$25,000442024
American National Red CrossWooster, OH$24,130442024
Wayne County Humane SocietyWooster, OH$23,206442024
Adaptive Sports Program of OhioDalton, OH$17,500332024
The Salvation ArmyWooster, OH$13,069222022
A Whole Community IncWooster, OH$10,000222023
Akron-Canton Regional FoodbankAkron, OH$10,000222024
Vantage AgingAkron, OH$8,000112022
Goodwill Industries of Wayne-Holmes CounWooster, OH$6,500112022
United Way of Wayne and Holmes CountiesWooster, OH$6,000112023
Boys and Girls Club of Wooster IncWooster, OH$5,800112022
Healthcare 2000 Community Clinic IncWooster, OH$5,000112022
People to PeopleWooster, OH$3,960112023
Wayne Center for the ArtsWooster, OH$3,219112023

7 of 14 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
5 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20216$33,822$5,000
20229$54,458$5,800
20238$38,898$5,000
20245$34,206$7,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Wooster, OH
$101K
North Canton, OH
$25K
Akron, OH
$18K
Dalton, OH
$18K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Wayne County Community Foundation10 shared recipientsCharles W & Laura B Frick Irr9 shared recipientsRalph R and Grace B Jones Foundation6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsStark Community Foundation5 shared recipientsUnited Way of Wayne and Holmes Co5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,079. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Charles Loehr Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 500 First Ave P7-Pfsc-03-Z, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 34-6792962 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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