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J Edwin Treakle Foundation Inc

Gloucester, VA · EIN 54-6051620. Reported 155 grants totalling $975,000 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$975,000granted, 2021-2024
54organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$7,435,898assets, 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. J Edwin Treakle 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $8,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $51,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
44 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
47 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
32 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 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
Abingdon Volunteer Fire and RescueBena, VA$159,000442024
Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue SquadGloucester, VA$159,000442024
Mathews Volunteer Fire DepartmentMathews, VA$80,000442024
Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad IncMathews, VA$80,000442024
Hands Across MathewsMathews, VA$34,000442024
Salvation Army Gloucester Service CenterHayes, VA$34,000442024
Rappahannock Community College Educational Foundation IncWarsaw, VA$31,800442024
Samaritan Group theWhite Marsh, VA$31,000442024
Gloucester Library Friends ofGloucester, VA$30,000332023
Gloucester-Mathews Care ClinicGloucester, VA$30,000332023
Mathews Memorial Library Inc Friends ofMathews, VA$30,000332023
Christopher Newport University Education FoundationNewport News, VA$26,000442024
Gloucester United Emergency Shelter TeamGloucester, VA$25,000442024
Gloucester Housing Partnership IncHayes, VA$24,000332023
Bay AgingUrbanna, VA$22,000442024
Gloucester-Mathews Free ClinicGloucester, VA$20,000112024
Gloucester County 4-HGloucester, VA$15,000442024
Gloucester-Mathews Humane SocietyGloucester, VA$15,000332023
Jacob's Ladder IncUrbanna, VA$15,000442024
Rural Housing PartnershipGloucester, VA$15,000112024
Girl Scout Council of Colonial CoastChesapeake, VA$10,000442024
Mathews High School CrewMathews, VA$10,000442024
Mathews County Triad IncMathews, VA$9,000442024
Reading Is Fundamental - Botetourt Elementary SchoolGloucester, VA$9,000442024
Habitat for Humanity of Gloucester & MathHayes, VA$6,000112024
Woodville Rosenwald School FoundationGloucester, VA$5,000332024
Bay School Community Arts CenterMathews, VA$4,000442024
Boys & Girls Culbs of Virginia PeninsulaNewport News, VA$3,400112023
Circle of Friends FoundationGloucester Point, VA$3,000332023
Versability Resources IncHampton, VA$3,000222024
Virginia Foundation for Independent CollegesRichmond, VA$3,000332023
Ware AcademyGloucester, VA$3,000332023
Mathews Baptist ChurchHudgins, VA$2,400442024
Court House PlayersGloucester, VA$2,000332024
First Morning Star Baptist ChurchBena, VA$2,000442024
Gwynn's Island Civic League for Gwynn's Island Cemetery FundHudgins, VA$2,000442024
Haynes Cemetery IncMoon, VA$2,000442024
Historic Christ Church Inc Foundation forIrvington, VA$2,000442024
Literacy Volunteers of Gloucester IncWhite Marsh, VA$2,000222022
Virginia College Fund theRichmond, VA$2,000222022
Virginia Symphony OrchestraNorfolk, VA$2,000112024
West Mathews Community LeagueMathews, VA$2,000442024
First Baptist ChurchMathews, VA$1,500332024
Children's Hos of the King's DaughtersNorfolk, VA$1,400112024
Arts on MainGloucester, VA$1,000222023
Mathews County Historical Society IncMathews, VA$1,000112021
Peartree Cemetary AssociationMoon, VA$1,000222022
Peartree Cemetery AssociationMoon, VA$1,000222024
St Paul Cemeteries AssociationSusan, VA$1,000222022
Bayside Youth BalletGloucester, VA$500112023
Bethel Church of MathewsMathews, VA$500112024
Bethel United Methodist ChurchMathews, VA$500112023
Doorways theRichmond, VA$500112022
Moose Family PlayersGloucester, VA$500112022

42 of 54 (78%) 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 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 87 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
20 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Arts & Culture
9 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
8 grants
Youth Development
8 grants
Mutual Benefit
6 grants
Religion
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202139$225,000$2,000
202242$225,000$2,000
202339$225,000$2,000
202435$300,000$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

Gloucester, VA
$330K
Mathews, VA
$252K
Bena, VA
$161K
Hayes, VA
$64K
Urbanna, VA
$37K
White Marsh, VA
$33K
Warsaw, VA
$32K
Newport News, VA
$29K

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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.

The Community Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsDominion Energy Charitable Foundation14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsSentara Health5 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Virginia Peninsula5 shared recipientsLangley for Families -5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. 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 Virginia.
  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 J Edwin Treakle 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: Box 1157, Gloucester, VA, 23061. 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 54-6051620 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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