FundersTennessee

Laroche Family Foundation

Murfreesboro, TN · EIN 71-0944751. Reported 76 grants totalling $632,213 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,475median grant
$632,213granted, 2021-2024
45organizations funded
39%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,548,308assets, 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. Laroche Family Foundation 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 $2,475. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $11,166; the smallest was $50 and the largest $107,501. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
25 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
23 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Tn Green ConservancyNashville, TN$157,501332024
Harding AcademyNashville, TN$80,000332023
The ForgeNashville, TN$54,000332024
Greenhouse MinistriesMurfreesboro, TN$50,000112023
Webb SchoolBell Buckle, TN$40,500222023
United WayMurfreesboro, TN$32,500332023
Forward TennesseeNashville, TN$30,000332024
St Thomas FoundationMurfreesboro, TN$26,550222023
Discovery CenterMurfreesboro, TN$25,050112023
Childrens Disc MuseumMurfreesboro, TN$25,000112021
Charity CircleMurfreesboro, TN$14,106442024
Currey Ingram FoundatioBrentwood, TN$12,000112023
Tennessee GreenNashville, TN$11,166112021
Ensworth FundNashville, TN$10,500112023
BSA of AmericaNashville, TN$7,500332024
Mboro City Sch FoundatiMurfreesboro, TN$6,500222023
50 Plus FoundationChattanooga, TN$6,000112023
Dartmoth UniversityHanover, NH$5,150332023
Notes for EducationNapa, CA$4,800222023
Nashville SymphonyNashville, TN$4,500112022
SmithsonianWashington, DC$4,100442024
Tn Innocence ProjectNashville, TN$4,000112022
American Heart AssocNashville, TN$3,000222022
Oakland Historic MusuemMurfreesboro, TN$2,990332023
Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH$2,700112024
Boy Scouts of AmericaNashville, TN$2,500112021
Child AdvocacyMurfreesboro, TN$2,250112021
Mlk ScholarshipMurfreesboro, TN$2,000442024
Haiti Outreach MinistryMatthews, NC$1,000112021
Nashville Repor TheatreNashville, TN$750112021
CASA of Rutherford CoMurfreesboro, TN$500222022
Doors of HopeMurfreesboro, TN$500112023
Sewanee Fire DeptSewanee, TN$500112022
Linegaugh LibraryMurfreesboro, TN$400112021
Am Museum National HisNew York, NY$300112021
University of SouthSewanee, TN$275112021
Isaiah 117Elizabethton, TN$250112021
So Cumberland Comm FounMonteagle, TN$250112021
Mote Marine LabSarasota, FL$125112021
MomaNew York, NY$100112021
Nourish Food BankGoodlettsville, TN$100112022
Stones Riv BattlefieldMurfreesboro, TN$100112022
Tenn Historical SocietyNashville, TN$100112023
Archaeological ConservaAlbuquerque, NM$50112022
Elephant SanctuaryHohenwald, TN$50112021

17 of 45 (38%) 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 39%, 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 17 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
6 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202123$106,397$1,000
202223$226,121$2,500
202322$240,645$8,000
20248$59,050$2,600

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.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Laroche Family Foundation has 15 of them, worth $114,183. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Greenhouse MinistriesMurfreesboro, TN$50,000
Discovery CenterMurfreesboro, TN$25,400
Currey Ingram FoundatioBrentwood, TN$25,000
WpxnPaxton, IL$5,000
City School FoundationMurfreesboro, TN$2,500
CenterstoneAtlanta, GA$2,500
CASANashville, TN$1,000
Nashville SymphonyNashville, TN$800
Oakland Historic MuseumMurfreesboro, TN$579
Possiblity PlaceMurfreesboro, TN$500
Amer Museum National HiNew York, NY$354
Victory Christian CtrMurfreesboro, TN$250
Archaeological ConservAlbuquerque, NM$100
Tn Historical SocietyNashville, TN$100
First United Meth ChurcMurfreesboro, TN$100

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 97% of this one's giving went to organizations in Tennessee. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Tennessee
$614K
New Hampshire
$8K
California
$5K
District of Columbia
$4K
North Carolina
$1K
New York
$400
Florida
$125
New Mexico
$50

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsGs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund9 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,475. 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 Tennessee.
  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 Laroche Family Foundation'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: 2103 Shannon Drive, Murfreesboro, TN, 37129. 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 71-0944751 · 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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