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Florsheim Family Foundation

Reno, NV · EIN 83-2809169. Reported 44 grants totalling $99,850 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$99,850granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$743,886assets, 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. Florsheim Family Foundation 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 $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
10 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
29 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
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
Pers Services Stanford Health CareStanford, CA$15,000222023
Ruby Habitat FoundationSheridan, MT$11,000332024
Red Rhino Orphanage ProjectStockton, CA$8,000332024
Folds of HonorOwasso, OK$6,000222024
Stanford Health CareStanford, CA$5,000112024
Tip Your Heart FoundationLodi, CA$5,000112022
Youth on CourseMonterey, CA$5,000112024
The Quarry Sponsorship FundMaumee, OH$4,500332024
Bristlecone Family Resource CenterReno, NV$4,000112022
Pacific GolfWatsonsille, CA$4,000222023
Achieve TahoeTruckee, CA$3,250442024
Brisllecone Family Resource CenterReno, NV$3,000112023
Frost & Bubble FoundationScottsdale, AZ$3,000112023
Marthas Village & KitchenIndio, CA$3,000222024
Renown Health FoundationReno, NV$3,000222024
Ucsf Breast Cancer CenterSan Francisco, CA$2,500112023
Stephen J Warmpler FoundationCoronado, CA$2,000112023
Tahoe Forest Health System FoundationTruckee, CA$2,000112024
Bolen Family FundKings Beach, CA$1,500112021
Boys and Girls Club North Lake TahoeKings Beach, CA$1,500112024
World Central KitchenWashington, DC$1,500112022
Parasol Tahoe Community FoundationIncline Village, NV$1,000112022
UC DavisDavis, CA$1,000112023
Unr FoundationKings Beach, CA$1,000222022
Boys & Girls Club Coachella ValleyPalm Desert, CA$750112023
Boys & Girls Club North Lake TaheoKings Beach, CA$750112023
TipnnvReno, NV$600112022
GofundmeRedwood City, CA$500112023
The Boys and Girls ClubAtlanta, GA$500112023

10 of 29 (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 50%, 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.

Plus 2 grants to individuals totalling $9,490 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 21 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

International Affairs
3 grants
Environment
3 grants
Education
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20213$2,250$500
202212$37,600$2,250
202318$34,500$1,500
202411$25,500$2,000

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. 62% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$62K
Nevada
$12K
Montana
$11K
Oklahoma
$6K
Ohio
$4K
Arizona
$3K
District of Columbia
$2K
Georgia
$500

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsGs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. 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 California.
  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 Florsheim Family Foundation'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: 2710 Tobiano Dr, Reno, NV, 89521. 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 83-2809169 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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