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Louis and Temple Marsch Charitable Trust

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 37-6129244. Reported 101 grants totalling $133,200 to 53 organizations 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
53organizations funded
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. 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
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. 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 32 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 58% of this one's giving went to organizations in Illinois. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

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 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 $1,000. 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 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.

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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). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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

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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