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Felker Family Foundation Inc

High Shoals, GA · EIN 58-2653640. Reported 80 grants totalling $491,850 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$491,850granted, 2021-2024
41organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,519,070assets, 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. Felker Family Foundation Inc 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
22 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
28 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
Uga FoundationAthens, GA$50,000112024
Athens College of MinistryAthens, GA$40,000442024
Mcdaniel Tichenor HouseMonroe, GA$40,000442024
Robson Academy - SheridanSheridan, WY$30,000332023
Shephard Center FoundationAtlanta, GA$30,000332023
Summit Middle SchoolBoulder, CO$25,000442024
United Way of Aiken CountyAiken, SC$25,000332023
Virginia Episcopal SchoolLynchburg, VA$25,000112021
Big Horn Equestrian CenterSheridan, WY$20,000442024
Grace CommonsBoulder, CO$20,000222022
Grace Commons ChurchBoulder, CO$20,000222024
Butterfly Dreams FarmWatkinsville, GA$17,500332024
Food Bank of Ne GeogiaAthens, GA$16,000332024
Bogus Basin Recreation AssocBoise, ID$15,000332023
Idaho Diaper BankMeridian, ID$10,000222024
The Brinton MuseumBig Horn, WY$10,000112021
Walton County Boys & Girls ClubMadison, GA$8,000332024
Idaho Humane SocietyBoise, ID$7,500222023
Omega Horse Rescue & RehabAirville, PA$7,500112021
Georgia Coastal Historical SocietySt Simons Island, GA$7,000222024
Greater Boulder Youth OrchestraBoulder, CO$7,000332023
Sheridan Public Arts CommitteeSheridan, WY$6,000222024
AthenspetsAthens, GA$5,000112022
Fairview Parent OrganizationBoulder, CO$5,000112024
Ga Equine Rescue LeagueBethlehem, GA$5,000112022
Madison Oglethorpe Animal ShelterDanielsville, GA$5,000222024
Monroe MuseumMonroe, GA$5,000112021
The Humane Society of the USWashington, DC$5,000112024
The Salvation Army AthensAthens, GA$5,000112021
Sheridan Community Land TrustSheridan, WY$4,000332024
Flatirons Elementary PTOBoulder, CO$3,500112021
Denver InstituteDenver, CO$3,000112022
Both Hands FoundationBrentwood, TN$2,000222024
Second Harvest of South GeorgiaValdosta, GA$2,000112024
Special Olympics GeorgiaValdosta, GA$2,000112023
Vore Buffalo Jump FoundationSundance, WY$1,500222024
Fairview Orchestra Booster ClubBoulder, CO$1,000112024
Comer Baptist ChurchComer, GA$500112024
Friends of Oglethorpe County LibraryLexington, GA$500112023
National Fire Safety CouncilMichigan Center, MI$250112024
Ga Walk for Breast CancerAtlanta, GA$100112022

22 of 41 (54%) 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 62%, 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 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
8 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Animal Welfare
5 grants
Religion
3 grants
Environment
3 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$143,500$5,000
202218$101,600$5,000
202321$116,000$5,000
202422$130,750$4,500

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. 49% of this one's giving went to organizations in Georgia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Georgia
$239K
Colorado
$84K
Wyoming
$72K
Idaho
$32K
South Carolina
$25K
Virginia
$25K
Pennsylvania
$8K
District of Columbia
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. 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 Georgia.
  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 Felker Family Foundation Inc'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 202, High Shoals, GA, 30645. 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 58-2653640 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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