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Marshall Family Foundation Inc

Salina, KS · EIN 74-2832446. Reported 140 grants totalling $343,025 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$343,025granted, 2021-2024
49organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,111,821assets, 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. Marshall 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $2,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
83 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
40 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
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
Kansas Wesleyan UniversitySalina, KS$63,000442024
Spencer Museum of ArtLawrence, KS$55,000442024
Salina SymphonySalina, KS$39,000442024
The GarageSalina, KS$38,500332024
Presbyterian Manor FoundationSalina, KS$22,500442024
Ku School of Medicine - Salina CampusSalina, KS$16,000442024
Rolling Hills Wildlife ParkSalina, KS$11,000442024
Occk IncSalina, KS$10,500332023
First United Methodist ChurchSalina, KS$10,000442024
Salina United WaySalina, KS$7,600442024
St Ann's Catholic ChurchEffingham, KS$7,000222024
Presbyterian Manors of Mid America IncWichita, KS$5,000442024
Prairie Museum of Art and HistoryColby, KS$4,500222024
Eisenhower FoundationAbilene, KS$4,000442024
Just Food of Douglas County IncLawrence, KS$4,000222024
Smoky Hill MuseumSalina, KS$3,700442024
Greater Salina Community FoundationSalina, KS$3,500112023
Salina Rescue Mission IncSalina, KS$2,800442024
Ashby HouseSalina, KS$2,000442024
Big Brothers Big SistersSalina, KS$2,000442024
Child Advocacy and Parenting ServicesSalina, KS$2,000442024
Domestic Violence Association of Central KansasSalina, KS$2,000442024
Meals on WheelsSalina, KS$2,000442024
Salina Emergency Aidfood BankSalina, KS$2,000442024
Salina Health Education FoundationSalina, KS$2,000442024
Salvation ArmySalina, KS$2,000442024
The CitySalina, KS$2,000442024
Boy Scouts of AmericaSalina, KS$1,600442024
First Presbyterian ChurchSalina, KS$1,600222023
Kansas Veterans Project Inc (kvp Inc)Salina, KS$1,500112021
Sunflower Adult Day CareSalina, KS$1,500442024
Salina Arts and Humanities FoundationSalina, KS$1,300332024
Saline County 4-HSalina, KS$1,200442024
Sandzen MuseumLindsborg, KS$1,100442024
Salina Animal ShelterSalina, KS$1,075442024
Alpha Nu Beta FoundationLawrence, KS$1,000112023
Salina Education FoundationSalina, KS$1,000222024
City of Salina Salina Arts & Humanities DepartmentSalina, KS$550112023
Fort Hays State University FoundationHays, KS$500112023
Geneva CollegeBeaver Falls, PA$500112022
Highland Community CollegeHighland, KS$500112021
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$450332024
Hospice of the ValleyPhoenix, AZ$400112022
Salina Art CenterSalina, KS$400112023
St Mary's Grade SchoolSalina, KS$400112023
Ku NursingSalina, KS$300112022
Francis Classen FoundationWilson, KS$200112024
Sunrise Presbyterian ChurchSalina, KS$200112021
St JudeSalina, KS$150112021

35 of 49 (71%) 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 83%, 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 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
10 grants
Housing & Shelter
8 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202133$53,325$500
202235$77,200$500
202338$93,700$525
202434$118,800$500

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. 100% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kansas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Kansas
$342K
Pennsylvania
$500
Tennessee
$450
Arizona
$400

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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.

Greater Salina Community Foundation20 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsMccune & Middlekauff Foundation10 shared recipientsSmoot Charitable Foundation9 shared recipientsEarl Bane Foundation8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. 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 Kansas.
  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 Marshall Family 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: 1714 Upper Mill Terrace, Salina, KS, 67401. 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 74-2832446 · 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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