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Fred and Ann Margolin Foundation

Dallas, TX · EIN 75-2568875. Reported 73 grants totalling $353,176 to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$353,176granted, 2021-2024
53organizations funded
29%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,055,680assets, 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. Fred and Ann Margolin 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 $5,788; the smallest was $250 and the largest $33,964. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
13 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
36 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
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
Temple Emanu-ElDallas, TX$75,539442024
Jewish Federation of Greater DallasDallas, TX$44,000332023
Dallas Holocaust MuseumDallas, TX$41,325442024
Titas Dance UnboundRaleigh, NC$37,550332024
United Way of Metro DallasDallas, TX$30,000332023
The Mussar InstituteBoynton Beach, FL$25,300222023
Mussar InstitutionBoynton Beach, FL$11,030112021
Dallas Holocaust & Human Right MuseumDallas, TX$9,000112022
Tex ProtectsDallas, TX$6,050222023
Bryans House FoundationDallas, TX$5,000112023
Dallas Kids FirstDallas, TX$5,000112022
Health Network FoundationCleveland, OH$5,000112022
Texans Care ChildrenAustin, TX$5,000222023
The Family PlaceDallas, TX$4,000222022
Communities in Schools of the Dallas RegionDallas, TX$2,500112022
Dallas Eviction Advocacy CenterDallas, TX$2,500112022
HiasWashington, DC$2,500112022
Planned Parenthood of Greater TexasDallas, TX$2,500112022
Trac (transition Resource Action Center)Dallas, TX$2,500112024
World Monuments FundNew York, NY$2,500112024
Girls IncNew York, NY$2,000112021
The Dickey FoundationDallas, TX$2,000222023
Titus Dance UnboundRaleigh, NC$2,000112021
Anti-Defamation League TexomaNew York, NY$1,800112024
Bruce Wood DanceDallas, TX$1,500222023
Texans Care for ChildrenAustin, TX$1,500112024
Triumph Over AlzheimersDallas, TX$1,500112022
Turtle Creek AssociationDallas, TX$1,500112024
Dallas Museum of ArtDallas, TX$1,250222023
Dallas Area Torah AssociationDallas, TX$1,030112024
Conservative Round Table of TexasAustin, TX$1,000112023
Dallas College FoundationDallas, TX$1,000112022
Dallas FoundationDallas, TX$1,000112021
Harvard Business School Club of DallasDallas, TX$1,000112024
Healthy FuturesSan Antonio, TX$1,000112023
League of Women Voters Education FundDallas, TX$1,000112023
National Council of Jewish WomenBurbank, CA$1,000112023
Syda FoundationHurleyville, NY$1,000112024
Temple ShalomPark City, UT$1,000112024
Texas AcademiesDallas, TX$1,000112022
The Torch FoundationDallas, TX$1,000112022
Woodall Rodgers Park FoundationDallas, TX$1,000112021
World Affairs Council DallasDallas, TX$1,000112022
World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort WorthDallas, TX$1,000112021
Sp Carlisle ShowroomDallas, TX$787112023
Dallas Area Torah Association (data)Dallas, TX$750112022
Sammons Center for the ArtsDallas, TX$750222023
NapeBrentwood, MO$500112022
Temple ShalomDallas, TX$500112021
Nasher Sculpter GardenDallas, TX$265112021
Friends of the Israel Defense ForcesNew York, NY$250112024
Safer Dallas Better DallasDallas, TX$250112021
Ut Southern Lymphedema ClinicDallas, TX$250112022

13 of 53 (25%) 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 29%, 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 45 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Religion
6 grants
Crime & Legal
3 grants
Education
3 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Environment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202117$62,597$2,000
202225$87,763$2,500
202318$127,072$1,025
202413$75,744$1,500

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. 74% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$260K
North Carolina
$40K
Florida
$36K
New York
$8K
Ohio
$5K
District of Columbia
$2K
California
$1K
Utah
$1K

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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 Fund25 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Texas Inc22 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc21 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program18 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust17 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc17 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 Texas.
  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 Fred and Ann Margolin 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: 3535 Gillespie 702, Dallas, TX, 75219. 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 75-2568875 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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