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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 83-6154611

Esther W Spaulding Charitable Trust

A private foundation in Buffalo, NY. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 2 grants and $212,846 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

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Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

9 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $212,846

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $3,673,671

  • Tax year 2024

    $195,706

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $3,556,917

  • Tax year 2023

    $167,452

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $3,430,851

  • Tax year 2022

    $185,964

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $3,563,131

  • Tax year 2021

    $173,944

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $2,953,851

  • Tax year 2020

    $156,440

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $3,015,194

  • Tax year 2019

    $117,870

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $2,701,621

  • Tax year 2018

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $0

  • Tax year 2017

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $0

Grants paid in 2025

2 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Westover SchoolMiddlebury, CT

    To support private secondary schools for women

    $202,846
  2. Glimmergas OperaCooperstown, NY

    To support private secondary schools for women

    $10,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education1 grant $202,846100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Connecticut1 grant $202,846
  2. New York1 grant $10,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • James M WadsworthTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $5,400
  • Robert L Miller JrTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $8,711

The return

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