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Frenzel Family Charitable Fdn

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 83-4630754. Reported 98 grants totalling $431,499 to 59 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,666median grant
$431,499granted, 2021-2024
59organizations funded
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,063,054assets, 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. Frenzel Family Charitable Fdn 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 $3,666. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $21,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
57 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 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
Broomfield Community FoundationBroomfield, CO$49,000442024
Charleston WaterkeeperMt Pleasant, SC$24,333442024
United States Fund for UnicefNew York, NY$24,000332024
Humane Society of Tampa Bay IncTampa, FL$23,000222024
Greater Milwaukee FoundationMilwaukee, WI$18,500442024
Uwm Foundation IncMilwaukee, WI$18,000442024
Lowcountry Land TrustCharleston, SC$17,333332024
Feeding America Tampa Bay IncTampa, FL$16,500332024
Star Gospel MissionMt Pleasant, SC$12,833332024
Clean WisconsinMadison, WI$12,500442024
Children Across Borders IncTampa, FL$10,000222022
Environmental Defense FundWashington, DC$10,000112021
Feeding Tampa BayTampa, FL$10,000112021
Helen Keller InternationalNew York, NY$10,000112021
National Park FoundationWashington, DC$10,000112021
Strong TownsBrainerd, MN$8,000222024
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$6,000112024
Environmental Defense FundHagerstown, MD$6,000222023
CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties IncWestminster, CO$5,500222023
Colorado Trail FoundationGolden, CO$5,500442024
Doctors Without BordersHagerstown, MD$5,500112023
AyudaWashington, DC$5,000112021
Broomfield Council on the Arts &Broomfield, CO$5,000112021
C a R E IncMerrifield, VA$5,000112021
CASA of Adams and Broomfield -Westminster, CO$5,000112021
Charleston Habitat for HumanityCharleston, SC$5,000112021
GivewellOakland, CA$5,000112022
Next Door Foundation IncMilwaukee, WI$5,000112021
One-Eighty PlaceCharleston, SC$5,000112021
Rock Creek ConservancyBethesda, MD$5,000112021
Rocky Mountain Legal CenterLafayette, CO$5,000112021
Roper St Francis FoundationLadson, SC$5,000222023
Carolina Youth Development CenterNorth Charleston, SC$4,500222024
Reach Out and Read ColoradoDenver, CO$4,500222023
CareMerrifield, VA$4,000222024
CASA of Adams and Broomfield CountiesWestminster, CO$4,000112024
Common Ground IncMilwaukee, WI$4,000222024
Disability Partnership ProjectSilver Spring, MD$4,000112023
North Carolina Community FoundationRaleigh, NC$4,000112024
Palestine Childrens Relief FundLos Angeles, CA$4,000112024
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup FoNew York, NY$3,500222024
Wikimedia Foundation IncSan Francisco, CA$3,000222023
Caroline Youth Development CenterNorth Charleston, SC$2,500112023
Center for Disaster Philanthropy IncWashington, DC$2,500112022
Conservation Colorado Education FundDenver, CO$2,500112022
Eletronic Frontier Foundation IncSan Francisco, CA$2,500112021
Outward Bound IncBaltimore, MD$2,500112021
The Dictionary ProjectCharleston, SC$2,500112021
Transformations CdcCincinnati, OH$2,500112021
Care IncTillamook, OR$2,000112022
Continental Divide Trail CoalitionGolden, CO$2,000222024
El PorvenirBroomfield, CO$2,000112023
Planned Parenthood Federation ofNew York, NY$2,000112023
Wikimedia FoundationWashington DC, DC$2,000112024
Appalachian Long Distance Hikers-West Lebanon, NH$1,500112021
Charleston MovesCharleston, SC$1,500112024
My Sisters HouseSacramento, CA$1,500112023
Ocean Cleanup North Pacific FoundationNew York, NY$1,500112022
Planned Parenthood FederationNew York, NY$1,000112024

23 of 59 (39%) 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 58%, 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 77 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
18 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
10 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Education
8 grants
International Affairs
7 grants
Recreation & Sports
6 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$175,000$5,000
202221$69,999$2,500
202326$90,500$2,750
202424$96,000$4,000

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. 21% of this one's giving went to organizations in Colorado. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Colorado
$90K
South Carolina
$80K
Florida
$60K
Wisconsin
$58K
New York
$48K
District of Columbia
$30K
Maryland
$23K
California
$16K

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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 $3,666. 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 Colorado.
  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 Frenzel Family Charitable Fdn'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 83-4630754 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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