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Alfred G & Elma a Milotte Scholarship Fund

Spokane, WA · EIN 91-6307731. Reported 44 grants totalling $248,250 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,000median grant
$248,250granted, 2021-2024
32organizations funded
12%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,054,944assets, 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. Alfred G & Elma a Milotte Scholarship Fund 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 $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $8,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $16,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
29 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 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
Washington State UniversityPullman, WA$16,750112024
Karl Miller Washington State UniversityVan Couver, WA$14,250222023
Adelaide Bradley Washington State UniversityPullman, WA$13,500222023
Rebekah Morgan Biola UniversityLa Mirada, CA$13,500222023
Sophie Brabec Eastern Washington UniversityCheney, WA$12,750222023
Ezekiel Cochran Letourneau UniversityLongview, TX$12,500222023
Bothellmahtab KhazaiKenmore, WA$12,000112021
Elise FlorenceKirkland, WA$12,000332023
Joseph Gourley U S Air Force AcademyUsafa, CO$12,000222023
Joshua Bell Le Tourneau UniversityLongview, TX$12,000222023
Sarah Turcic Point Coma Nazarene UniversityCamas, WA$10,000112021
Sarah Gourley Washington State UniversityPullman, WA$9,000112023
Biola UniversityLa Mirada, CA$8,000112024
Elena Norquist Cedarville UniversityCedarville, OH$8,000222023
Clark CollegeVancouver, WA$7,500112024
Owen Carson Westmont CollegeSanta Barbara, CA$7,500222023
Olivia Florence Biola UniversityLa Mirada, CA$6,500222023
Mckenna MerleBattle Ground, WA$6,000112021
Sarah Gourley Montana State UniversityBozeman, MT$4,500112022
Cedarville UniversityCedarville, OH$4,000112024
Dordt UniversitySioux Center, IA$4,000112024
Erin Trantham Le Tourneau UniversityLongview, TX$4,000112021
Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix, AZ$4,000112024
James TrainerSeattle, WA$4,000112021
Letourneau UniversityLongview, TX$4,000112024
Nyah HughesWenatchee, WA$4,000112021
Patrick Henry CollegePurcellville, VA$4,000112024
University of Alaska AnchorageAnchorage, AK$4,000112024
Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA$4,000112024
Wentworth Institute of TechnologyBoston, MA$4,000112024
Western Washington UniversityBellingham, WA$4,000112024
Mia VigilBremerton, WA$2,000112021

11 of 32 (34%) 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 12%, 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 8 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
8 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$46,000$4,000
202212$52,750$4,125
202312$81,250$8,000
202412$68,250$4,000

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 51% of this one's giving went to organizations in Washington. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Washington
$128K
California
$36K
Texas
$32K
Colorado
$12K
Ohio
$12K
Virginia
$8K
Montana
$4K
Alaska
$4K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,000. 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 Washington.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Alfred G & Elma a Milotte Scholarship Fund'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: Po Box 18969, Spokane, WA, 99228. 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 91-6307731 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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