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Carl Marshall Reeves and

Fenton, MO · EIN 35-2026200. Reported 121 grants totalling $3,418,505 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$19,913median grant
$3,418,505granted, 2021-2024
49organizations funded
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$17.7Massets, 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. Carl Marshall Reeves and 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 $19,913. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,994 and $39,925; the smallest was $200 and the largest $206,434. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
17 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
28 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
28 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
22 grants
$100,000 and Up
2 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 University in St LouisSt Louis, MO$461,183442024
Bartholomew Consolidated School FoundationColumbus, IN$358,105642024
Umass Memorial Foundation (u Mass Medical School)Shrewsbury, MA$258,951442024
Ivy Tech FoundationColumbus, IN$235,000842024
IupucColumbus, IN$229,575642024
Vumc (vanderbilt Eye Institute)Nashville, TN$137,100332024
University of WisconsinMadison, WI$122,340442024
Family Service IncColumbus, IN$112,250442024
Foundation for YouthColumbus, IN$101,801542024
Gleaners Food Bank of IndianaIndianapolis, IN$98,350442024
John a Moran Eye CenterSalt Lake City, UT$90,000112024
University of Buffalo Ross Eye InstituteBuffalo, NY$80,000112021
Vanderbilt Eye InstituteNashville, TN$80,000112021
All May See Foundation UcsfSan Francisco, CA$77,214222024
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$73,562112022
University of Texas Medical BranchGalveston, TX$72,864112022
Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family CenterColumbus, IN$72,429222023
Turning Point Domestic Violence ServicesColumbus, IN$69,500642024
Columbus Indiana PhilharmonicColumbus, IN$55,833332024
Columbus Regional Hospital FoundationColumbus, IN$53,710542024
Columbus Park FoundationColumbus, IN$50,000112021
Doheny Eye Institute (ucla)Los Angeles, CA$50,000222023
Wilmer Eye Institute (john Hopkins)Baltimore, MD$50,000112022
Our Hospice of South Central IndianaColumbus, IN$48,652442024
Indiana UniversityIndianapolis, IN$48,325222024
The Cole Eye InstituteCleveland, OH$32,265112024
Flatrock-Hawcreek School CorporationHope, IN$32,100442024
The Salvation ArmyColumbus, IN$30,000112023
Friends of the Bartholomew County Public LibraryColumbus, IN$24,853442024
Alliance for Substance Abuse ProgressColumbus, IN$21,591112021
Just Friends IncColumbus, IN$20,580332023
Dancers Studio Inc of ColumbusColumbus, IN$20,000112024
American Red Cross of Southeast IndianaFort Wayne, IN$19,506222024
Purdue University Polytechnic Institute - ColumbusColumbus, IN$19,400112024
Sans Souci IncColumbus, IN$18,818332024
Indiana University FoundationColumbus, IN$17,500222024
Columbus Area Chamber Foundation IncColumbus, IN$10,000112024
Bartholomew County Historical SocietyColumbus, IN$8,793112021
Arts for Learning the Indiana Affliate of Young AudiencesIndianapolis, IN$8,476332024
Family School PartnersColumbus, IN$8,371112024
Advocates for ChildrenColumbus, IN$8,250112021
Youth Leadership Bartholomew CountyColumbus, IN$7,666222023
Reins to Recovery IncSeymour, IN$4,635112024
KidscommonsColumbus, IN$4,470112022
Imagination Library of Bartholomew CountyColumbus, IN$3,600222024
Mill Race CenterColumbus, IN$3,596112021
Hoosier Trials Council BSABloomington, IN$3,471112022
Bartholomew County Humane SocietyColumbus, IN$2,500112023
Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators IncHope, IN$1,320112021

27 of 49 (55%) 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 67%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
Education
11 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Civil Rights
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202132$889,830$15,245
202231$1,076,850$25,000
202326$701,670$22,081
202432$750,155$19,700

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.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Carl Marshall Reeves and has 103 of them, worth $3,246,702. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Washington University in St LouisSt Louis, MO$255,000
Ivy Tech FoundationColumbus, IN$150,000
Ivy Tech FoundationColumbus, IN$100,000
IupucColumbus, IN$96,000
Washington University in St LouisSt Louis, MO$94,125
John a Moran Eye CenterSalt Lake City, UT$90,000
Umass Memorial Foundation (u Mass Medical School)Shrewsbury, MA$85,000
Washington University in St LouisSt Louis, MO$80,000
University of Texas Medical BranchGalveston, TX$78,415
Umass Memorial Foundation (u Mass Medical School)Shrewsbury, MA$75,000
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$75,000
Indiana UniversityIndianapolis, IN$60,087
Umass Memorial Foundation (u Mass Medical School)Shrewsbury, MA$60,000
Ivy Tech FoundationColumbus, IN$50,000
The Cole Eye InstituteCleveland, OH$50,000

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 54% of this one's giving went to organizations in Indiana. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Indiana
$1.8M
Missouri
$461K
Massachusetts
$259K
Tennessee
$217K
California
$127K
Wisconsin
$122K
Utah
$90K
New York
$80K

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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.

Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation17 shared recipientsElizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation11 shared recipientsClarence E Custer and Inez R Custer11 shared recipientsUnited Way of Bartholomew County Inc10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsColumbus Regional Hospital7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $19,913. 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 Indiana.
  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 Carl Marshall Reeves and'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: 346 Harbor Bluff Dr, Fenton, MO, 63026. 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 35-2026200 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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