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E Milner Trust Uw (pre-1969 Charitable

Birmingham, AL · EIN 35-6013632. Reported 51 grants totalling $156,408 to 18 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,269median grant
$156,408granted, 2021-2024
18organizations funded
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$860,035assets, 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. E Milner Trust Uw (pre-1969 Charitable 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 $2,269. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,791 and $4,537; the smallest was $1,612 and the largest $6,597. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
41 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 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
Paul Phillippe Resource CenterFrankfort, IN$23,612442024
Frankfort LionsFrankfort, OH$18,890442024
The Open Door Health Clinic IncFrankfort, IN$17,015332024
Wildcat Wildlife CenterDelphi, IN$11,803442024
Humane Society of Clinton CountyFrankfort, IN$9,577222024
Coach KidsFrankfort, IN$9,445442024
Clinton County Humane SocietyBreese, IL$9,313222023
Wecare of Clinton County IncFrankfort, IN$7,087442024
Camp CullomFrankfort, IN$7,083442024
Frankfort Community LibraryFrankfort, IN$7,083442024
Learning Network of Clinton County IncFrankfort, IN$7,083442024
The Arc of Clinton County IncFrankfort, IN$6,806332024
Open Door ClinicFrankfort, IN$6,597112021
Quintons House IncFrankfort, IN$5,104332024
Boys & Girls Club of Clinton CountyFrankfort, IN$3,680222023
Clinton County Assoc for Retarded CitizensFrankfort, IN$2,639112021
Quinton's House Child AdvocacyFrankfort, IN$1,979112021
Boys and Girls Club of Clinton CountyFrankfort, IN$1,612112024

14 of 18 (78%) 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 85%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
11 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Youth Development
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$44,201$2,639
202212$38,208$2,388
202313$37,998$2,269
202413$36,001$2,149

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. 82% 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
$128K
Ohio
$19K
Illinois
$9K

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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 $2,269. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from E Milner Trust Uw (pre-1969 Charitable'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: P O Box 11647, Birmingham, AL, 35202. 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 35-6013632 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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