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Lang Charitable Found

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 87-6115493. Reported 47 grants totalling $142,500 to 24 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$142,500granted, 2020-2023
24organizations funded
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,041,117assets, 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
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 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
Big Brothers Big Sisters of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$14,500442023
The Road HomeSalt Lake City, UT$14,500442023
Assistance League of Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City, UT$14,000442023
Rite CareSalt Lake City, UT$12,000442023
Salt Lake Donated Dental ServicesSalt Lake City, UT$8,000222021
Crossroads Urban CenterSalt Lake City, UT$7,500332023
Youth Futures UtahOgden, UT$7,500222023
Friends for SightSalt Lake City, UT$6,000332022
Utah Food BankSalt Lake City, UT$6,000222023
The Children's CenterSalt Lake City, UT$5,500222021
Bad Dog ArtsSalt Lake City, UT$5,000112023
Children S Center of UtahWest Valley City, UT$5,000112023
Utah Youth VillageSalt Lake City, UT$5,000222023
YWCA of Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City, UT$5,000222021
Discovery GatewaySalt Lake City, UT$4,000112020
People Helping PeopleSalt Lake City, UT$4,000112020
Girl Scouts of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$3,000222022
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

13 of 24 (54%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
13 grants
Education
4 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Health Care
2 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

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
$128K
Ogden, UT
$8K
West Valley City, UT
$5K
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 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 Fund14 shared recipientsGeorge S and Dolores Dore14 shared recipientsSorenson Legacy Foundation13 shared recipientsDominion Energy Charitable Foundation13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Utah11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). 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 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, 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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