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Larry Paul Fleschner Charitable

Terre Haute, IN · EIN 26-1098287. Reported 46 grants totalling $482,566 to 19 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$482,566granted, 2020-2023
19organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,608,399assets, 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. Larry Paul Fleschner Charitable 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $2,366 and the largest $42,494. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
7 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
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
Susie's PlaceAvon, IN$62,500442023
The Maple CenterTerre Haute, IN$62,500442023
Sacha Q'entePillcopata$57,509222023
Vigo County Educational FoundationTerre Haute, IN$55,000442023
Pride Center of Terre HauteTerre Haute, IN$45,000442023
Catholic Charities of Terre HauteTerre Haute, IN$32,500332022
Isu Kaf MspTerre Haute, IN$25,000112023
City of Coeur D'aleneCoeur Dalene, ID$20,000222022
Carmelite Monastery of Terre HauteTerre Haute, IN$18,980332022
The Seeing EyeMorristown, NJ$15,600112020
Council on Domestic AbuseTerre Haute, IN$13,125332022
Chances & Services for YouthTerre Haute, IN$13,000332022
Terre Haute Women's ClubTerre Haute, IN$11,000442023
Terre Haute Humane SocietyTerre Haute, IN$10,852222021
Art Spaces IncTerre Haute, IN$10,000112021
Candles Holocaust Museum and Education CenterTerre Haute, IN$10,000222022
Indiana State University FoundationTerre Haute, IN$7,500112022
Wabash Valley Community FoundationTerre Haute, IN$7,500112022
Eastside Christian Academy IncTerre Haute, IN$5,000112023

13 of 19 (68%) 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 22 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
8 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Education
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Religion
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202012$128,700$10,000
202112$121,491$8,507
202214$114,881$8,750
20238$117,494$10,000

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. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in Indiana. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Indiana
$389K
Idaho
$20K
New Jersey
$16K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. 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 Indiana.
  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 Larry Paul Fleschner Charitable'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: 201 Ohio Street, Terre Haute, IN, 47807. 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 26-1098287 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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