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Lorch Family Foundation Inc

Louisville, KY · EIN 46-3873179. Reported 16 grants totalling $24,500 to 16 recipients across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$24,500granted, 2024
16recipients, as named on its returns
$573,575assets, 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. Lorch Family Foundation Inc 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $2,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
16 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
434 MinistriesCorydon, IN$2,500112024
Choices Life Resource CenterNew Albany, IN$2,500112024
Spirit of Louisville FoundationLouisville, KY$2,500112024
NelcasaBardstown, KY$2,000112024
New Life CenterBardstown, KY$2,000112024
The Healing PlaceLouisville, KY$2,000112024
Volunteers of AmericaLouisville, KY$2,000112024
Beacon HouseLouisville, KY$1,000112024
Colon Cancer Prevention ProjectLouisville, KY$1,000112024
Louisville ZooLouisville, KY$1,000112024
Morton CenterLouisville, KY$1,000112024
Neighborhood HouseLouisville, KY$1,000112024
People Advocating RecoveryLouisville, KY$1,000112024
Sos International IncLouisville, KY$1,000112024
Seven Counties ServicesLouisville, KY$1,000112024
Sunrise Childrens ServicesMount Washington, KY$1,000112024
Plus 54 grants to individuals totalling $79,547 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 6 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
2 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Where its money goes

80% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Kentucky
$20K
Indiana
$5K

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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.

The Community Foundation of8 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Louisville8 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Louisville7 shared recipientsThe Gheens Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsV V Cooke Foundation Corporation7 shared recipientsNorton Healthcare Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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 Kentucky.
  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 Lorch Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: 4203 Machupe Dr, Louisville, KY, 40241. 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 46-3873179 · 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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