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Lang Charitable Found

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 87-6115493. Reported 60 grants totalling $188,500 to 27 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$188,500granted, 2020-2024
27recipients, as named on its returns
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,100,077assets, 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. Lang Charitable Found 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $4,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $5,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
50 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Big Brothers Big Sisters of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$19,500552024
The Road HomeSalt Lake City, UT$19,500552024
Assistance League of Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City, UT$14,000442023
Youth Futures UtahOgden, UT$12,500332024
Rite CareSalt Lake City, UT$12,000442023
Crossroads Urban CenterSalt Lake City, UT$10,000442024
Salt Lake Donated Dental ServicesSalt Lake City, UT$10,000332024
People Helping People IncSalt Lake City, UT$9,000222024
Utah Food BankSalt Lake City, UT$9,000332024
Friends for SightSalt Lake City, UT$8,000442024
Utah Youth VillageSalt Lake City, UT$7,500332024
Bad Dog ArtsSalt Lake City, UT$7,000222024
The Children's CenterSalt Lake City, UT$5,500222021
Children S Center of UtahWest Valley City, UT$5,000112023
The Children's Center UtahWest Valley City, UT$5,000112024
YWCA of Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City, UT$5,000222021
Discovery GatewaySalt Lake City, UT$4,000112020
Ritecare of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$4,000112024
Girl Scouts of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$3,000222022
Guadalupe Center Educational ProgramSalt Lake City, UT$3,000112024
Utah Food Bank Attn Linda MooreSalt Lake City, UT$3,000112020
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt LakeSalt Lake City, UT$2,500112020
Guadalupe Schools Attn Victoria M MoriSalt Lake City, UT$2,500112021
Building Youth Around the WorldWest Jordan, UT$2,000112020
Crossroads Urban Center Attn Glenn L BaileySalt Lake City, UT$2,000112020
Shelter the HomelessSalt Lake City, UT$2,000112020
South Valley SanctuarySalt Lake City, UT$2,000112021

15 of 27 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 64%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
17 grants
Education
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Health Care
3 grants
International Affairs
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202015$41,000$2,500
202112$30,500$2,500
202210$30,000$2,750
202310$41,000$4,500
202413$46,000$3,000

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

Salt Lake City, UT
$145K
Ogden, UT
$12K
West Valley City, UT
$10K
Salt Lake Cty, UT
$8K
South Salt Lake, UT
$5K
S Salt Lake, UT
$3K
Holladay, UT
$2K
West Jordan, UT
$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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsGeorge S and Dolores Dore15 shared recipientsSorenson Legacy Foundation14 shared recipientsDominion Energy Charitable Foundation14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsKennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Utah.
  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 Lang Charitable Found's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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 87-6115493 · 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.

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