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Louis and Temple Marsch Charitable Trust

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 37-6129244. Reported 101 grants totalling $133,200 to 53 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$133,200granted, 2021-2024
53recipients, as named on its returns
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,069,591assets, 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. Louis and Temple Marsch Charitable 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,500; the smallest was $200 and the largest $7,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
36 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
62 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 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
SiueEdwardsville, IL$18,500442024
University of IllinoisChampaign, IL$8,000332024
Maryville UniversitySt Louis, MO$7,500332024
Southern Il Universityedwardsville Financial Aid - Attn NicoleEdwardsville, IL$7,000112021
Illinois CollegeJacksonville, IL$6,000332023
Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL$6,000442024
Boston UniversityBoston, MA$4,000442024
Union UniversityJackson, TN$4,000222022
University of IowaIowa City, IA$4,000332023
Greenville CollegeGreenville, IL$3,500222024
Lincoln Land Community CollegeSpringfield, IL$3,500332024
Missouri S&tRolla, MO$3,500332024
Missouri Univ of Science and TechRolla, MO$3,500332023
Southern Il UniversityedwardsvilleEdwardsville, IL$3,500112022
Millikin UniversityDecatur, IL$3,000332024
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL$3,000222024
Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN$2,500222024
Lincoln Land Community College Student Accounts ReceivableSpringfield, IL$2,500112021
Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale, IL$2,500332024
Texas a and M UniversityCollege Station, TX$2,500222023
University of Colorado-BoulderBoulder, CO$2,500222024
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$2,500442024
University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, NC$2,500332024
Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS$2,000222022
St Ambrose UniversityDavenport, IA$2,000222024
St John's College Dept of NursingSpringfield, IL$2,000112021
St Johns College of NursingSpringfield, IL$2,000112022
Southern Illinois University Attn Financial Aid Office-3RD FloorCarbondale, IL$1,500112021
University of Missouri - ColumbiaColumbia, MO$1,500112024
Florida Gulf Coast UniversityFort Myers, FL$1,000112021
Lewis & Clark Community CollegeGodfrey, IL$1,000112023
Loyola University ChicagoChicago, IL$1,000112021
Missouri University of Science & TechRolla, MO$1,000112023
Southeast Missouri State UniversityCape Girardeau, MO$1,000112022
Southeast Missouri State University Student Financial ServicesCape Girardeau, MO$1,000112021
University of ColoradoboulderBoulder, CO$1,000112023
University of Il-SpringfieldSpringfield, IL$1,000112022
University of Il-Springfield Attn Teresa R SzaboSpringfield, IL$1,000112021
University of IlspringfieldSpringfield, IL$1,000112023
Baptist Church of MorrisonvilleMorrisonville, IL$600332024
Methodist ChurchMorrisonville, IL$600332024
St Maurice Catholic ChurchMobile, AL$600332024
Florida State UniversityTallahassee, FL$500112022
Lindenwood UniversitySaint Charles, MO$500112024
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$500112023
Siu EdwardsvilleEdwardsville, IL$500112024
Univ of Health Sciences and PharmacySaint Louis, MO$500112024
University of MissouriColumbia, MO$500112021
Presbyterian ChurchJeffersonville, IN$400222023
Presbyterian ChurchMorrisonville, IL$400222024
Baptist Church of MorrisonvileMorrisonville, IL$200112022
St Maurice Catholic ChurchMorrisonville, IL$200112021
United Methodist ChruchMorrisonville, IL$200112022

27 of 53 (51%) 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. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 32 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.

Education
28 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202125$37,800$1,000
202226$29,800$1,000
202326$31,800$1,000
202424$33,800$1,000

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

58% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Illinois
$77K
Missouri
$20K
Iowa
$6K
Florida
$4K
Massachusetts
$4K
Tennessee
$4K
Colorado
$4K
Michigan
$3K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America10 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund9 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 Illinois.
  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.

Related guides

Foundations funding education in IllinoisEvery funder in this group

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Louis and Temple Marsch Charitable Trust'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: 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 37-6129244 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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