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Lila L Gallimore Trust

Lebanon, OH · EIN 34-7127365. Reported 41 grants totalling $172,612 to 19 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$172,612granted, 2021-2024
19organizations funded
78%of grantees funded again the next year
$832,017assets, 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. Lila L Gallimore Trust 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
13 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
27 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
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
Clint Seymour Play Ball FundSeabrook Island, SC$20,000442024
Family Promise of Warren CountyLebanon, OH$20,000332024
ProkidsCincinnati, OH$20,000442024
Women Helping WomenCincinnati, OH$20,000442024
Warren County FoundationLebanon, OH$17,612442024
Countryside YMCALebanon, OH$15,000442024
Warren County Conservation AssociationLebanon, OH$15,000332024
Breakthrough CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$6,500332023
Camp JoyClarksville, OH$5,000112021
Educational Theater AssociationCincinnati, OH$5,000112021
First Step HomeCincinnati, OH$5,000222023
Good Life NetworksCincinnati, OH$5,000112021
PermaganicCamp Dennison, OH$5,000112021
Warren County Conservation AssociatLebanon, OH$5,000112021
Cincinnati Urban PromiseCincinnati, OH$2,500112021
UpspringCincinnati, OH$2,500112021
Central Cincinnati Young LifeCincinnati, OH$1,500112022
1N5Cincinnati, OH$1,000112021
Little Miami Watershed NetworkBellbrook, OH$1,000112022

9 of 19 (47%) 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 78%, 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 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants
Civil Rights
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$58,500$5,000
202211$44,000$5,000
20239$39,112$5,000
20247$31,000$5,000

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. 88% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$153K
South Carolina
$20K

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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 Fund9 shared recipientsThe Greater Cincinnati Foundation8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati7 shared recipientsJohn a Schroth Family Char Tr6 shared recipientsSutphin Family Foundation Ica6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. 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 Ohio.
  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 Lila L Gallimore Trust'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: 2232 Phillips Road, Lebanon, OH, 45036. 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 34-7127365 · 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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