The Ezrah Charitable Trust
Charlotte, NC · EIN 81-2608588. Reported 67 grants totalling $67.2M to 36 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". The Ezrah Charitable Trust checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations The Ezrah Charitable Trust funded make grants themselves, and it reported 9 grants totalling $8,830,988 to them. That is 17% of the $51.4M of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | federated giving programme | Pennsylvania | $7,450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | grantmaking organization | California | $1,277,988 | 5 | 4 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| The New Horizons Foundation Inc | grantmaking organization | Colorado | $103,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $500,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $171,924 and $1,000,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $7,939,181.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Acre Fund US | Highland Park, IL | $23.2M | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Southeastern, PA | $7,450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi Foundation | Cambridge | $5,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Root Capital Inc | Cambridge, MA | $4,300,446 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Jewish World Services | New York, NY | $3,800,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of Parivaar Inc | Scarsdale, NY | $3,500,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| One Acre Fund | Highland Park, IL | $2,214,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Trust for Oxford University (assoc of American Rhodes Scholars) | Vienna, VA | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Delta Philanthropies | London | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Myagro Farms | New York, NY | $1,800,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| King Baudouin Foundoundation | New York, NY | $1,718,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $1,277,988 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Digital Divide Data | New York, NY | $1,253,865 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Rhodes Trust | Oxford | $1,107,555 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Jewish World Service Inc | New York, NY | $1,050,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dalberg Charitable - Safe Hands Kenya | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Keep a Child Alive | New York, NY | $650,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Rhodes Trust Co Rhodes House | Oxford | $533,333 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Digital Green Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Generation You Employed Inc | Washington, DC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Partners in Food Solutions | Edina, MN | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Financial Integrity (gfi) | Washington, DC | $365,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Reall Ltd | Coventry | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Focusing Philanthropy Kristof C19 Impact Initiative | Santa Monica, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| TEAM4TECH Foundation | San Mateo, CA | $171,924 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Climate Action for Smallholders | Chestnut Hill, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Panorama Global | Seattle, WA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Rhodes Trust Horizon Fund | San Jose, CA | $114,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| King Baudouin Foundation | New York, NY | $103,780 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The New Horizons Foundation | Colorado Springs, CO | $103,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caf America for Raeng | Alexandria, VA | $54,350 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Via International | San Diego, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| South African Education and Environment Project - USA | Annapolis, MD | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| On His Path | Danville, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Amani Foundation (st Face Mask Project) | Brooklyn, NY | $11,112 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Charlotte Ctr Legal Advoc | Charlotte, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
11 of 36 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 46%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- One Acre Fund US
GENERAL SUPPORT TO ONE ACRE FUND'S MISSION TO SUPPLY AND SUPPORT SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AND ONE ACRE FUND'S DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION. ALSO, TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC ENDEAVORS TO EXPAND ONE ACRE FUND'S MISSION IN RWANDA, MALAWI, AND KENYA. - Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Contribution to The Ezrah Charitable DAF for charitable distributions. - American Trust for Oxford University (assoc of American Rhodes Scholars)
FUNDING TO THE RHODES TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS IN AFRICA, WITH A PREFERENCE FOR EAST & WEST AFRICA - American Jewish World Service Inc
General support to American Jewish World Service's mission to build a more just and equitable world. - Root Capital Inc
GENERAL SUPPORT TO ROOT CAPITAL'S WORK IN PROVIDING FINANCING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SMALL AND GROWING AGRICULTURAL BUSINESSES IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES. - Friends of Parivaar Inc
GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PARIVAAR'S CARE FOR CHILDREN IN INDIA WHO ARE HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO EXPLOITATION, VICTIMIZATION AND TRAFFICKING.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | $9,639,273 | $500,000 |
| 2021 | 11 | $15.9M | $300,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $14.4M | $425,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $8,375,348 | $433,333 |
| 2024 | 18 | $18.9M | $500,000 |
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
44% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Ezrah Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 5970 Fairview Road 705, Charlotte, NC, 28210. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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