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Freda Nishan Schlshp Test Tr

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 39-6038664. Reported 53 grants totalling $191,250 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,250median grant
$191,250granted, 2021-2024
32organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$910,987assets, 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. Freda Nishan Schlshp Test Tr 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 $2,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,650 and $4,250; the smallest was $75 and the largest $18,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
7 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
35 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 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
Uw Eau ClaireEau Claire, WI$29,650332024
Uw-PlattevillePlatteville, WI$20,600222024
Uw La CrosseLa Crosse, WI$18,950222024
UwlacrosseLa Crosse, WI$11,930112022
Uw MadisonMadison, WI$10,200222024
Edgewood CollegeMadison, WI$9,500332024
Uweau ClaireEau Claire, WI$8,400112022
University of Wisconsin PlattevillePlatteville, WI$7,400112022
UwmadisonMadison, WI$6,850222023
Ripon CollegeRipon, WI$6,150332024
Uw-Platteville Foundation IncPlatteville, WI$6,000112023
Uw StoutMenomonie, WI$5,650222024
Uw-ParksideKenosha, WI$5,250222024
Uwgreen BayGreen Bay, WI$4,315222023
University of Wisconsin OshkoshOshkosh, WI$4,200112022
Carroll UniversityWaukesha, WI$4,150222024
Cashiers OfficeSalt Lake City, UT$3,450222023
Wisconsin Lutheran CollegeMilwaukee, WI$3,450222023
Universitof Wisconsin Platteville BaraboBaraboo, WI$2,665112022
UwstoutMenomonie, WI$2,515222023
Uw Stevens PointStevens Point, WI$2,500112024
Madison CollegeMadison, WI$2,075222022
Uw-Green BayGreen Bay, WI$2,050112021
Blackhawk Technical CollegeJanesville, WI$2,000112024
Carroll CollegeHelena, MT$1,800112022
Uw-OshkoshOshkosh, WI$1,800112021
Viterbo UniversityLa Crosee, WI$1,800112022
University of Wisconsin - MadisonMadison, WI$1,650112023
Carroll CollegeWaukesha, WI$1,400112021
Uw-MilwaukeeMilwaukee, WI$1,400112021
Midstate Technical CollegeWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,150112023
School District of ReedsburgReedsburg, WI$350442024

16 of 32 (50%) 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 33%, 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 13 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
13 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$50,000$2,050
202216$55,250$2,200
202312$42,000$1,650
202412$44,000$2,750

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. 97% of this one's giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Wisconsin
$186K
Utah
$3K
Montana
$2K

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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 Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation7 shared recipientsAlliant Energy Foundation Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,250. 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 Wisconsin.
  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 Freda Nishan Schlshp Test Tr'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 0634, Milwaukee, WI, 53201. 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 39-6038664 · 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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