Mahan Foundation Inc
Lagrange, KY · EIN 31-1087614. Reported 34 grants totalling $264,000 to 34 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Mahan 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $7,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $55,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Chest of Oldham Co | La Grange, KY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Creasy Mahan Nature Preserve | Goshen, KY | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Health Clinic | La Grange, KY | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oldham County Community Scholarships | Buckner, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oldham Co Historical Society | La Grange, KY | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cedar Lake Foundation | Louisville, KY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hosparus | Louisville, KY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shiloh United Methodist Church | Goshen, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sojourn Church | Goshen, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St John Methodist Church | Goshen, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bellewood Brooklawn | Louisville, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christian Care Communities | Louisville, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mallory Taylor Foundation | La Grange, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Highpoint Charitable Services | La Grange, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Parent | Buckner, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wayside Christian Mission | Louisville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good News Shelter Corporation | Lagrange, KY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace and Glory Bread of Life Food Pantry | Goshen, KY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA | La Grange, KY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace and Glory Lutheran Church | Goshen, KY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oldham Co 4H Council | La Grange, KY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pillar | Crestwood, KY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Oldham Inner Church Council | Crestwood, KY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YMCA | Buckner, KY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana | Louisville, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kris Landers Foundation | La Grange, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army | Louisville, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Society of St Vincent Depaul | Louisville, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St John Center for Homeless Men | Louisville, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Depaul School | Louisville, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whas Crusade for Children | Louisville, KY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers and Big Sisters | Louisville, KY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement House | Louisville, KY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Joseph Childrens Home | Louisville, KY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
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.
- Community Chest of Oldham Co
Assist with organizations cause
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kentucky.
- 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.
- 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 Mahan Foundation Inc'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 498, Lagrange, KY, 40031. 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.
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