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Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 31-6019431. Reported 37 grants totalling $938,547 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,400median grant
$938,547granted, 2021-2024
20organizations funded
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,706,679assets, 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. Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable 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 $25,400. Half of everything it gave fell between $7,500 and $37,500; the smallest was $307 and the largest $81,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
16 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
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
Tiffin Community YMCATiffin, OH$125,936442024
City of TiffinTiffin, OH$107,141222024
Tiffin-Seneca United WayTiffin, OH$87,126222022
Old Trinity Episcopal ChurchTiffin, OH$81,000112022
The Salvation ArmyTiffin, OH$80,000222023
Tiffin UniversityTiffin, OH$77,500222023
Csji-Tiffin IncTiffin, OH$53,440332024
Seneca County Homeless CoalitionTiffin, OH$51,040222024
Seneca County Agricultural SocietyWaterloo, NY$50,000112021
First Call for HelpTiffin, OH$40,307222023
Tiffin Theatre IncTiffin, OH$35,562112024
United Way of North Central Ohio IncMarion, OH$35,116112024
Financial Assistance for Cancer Treatment IncTiffin, OH$35,000442024
Heidelberg UniversityTiffin, OH$25,400112023
Sisters in ShelterTiffin, OH$21,484222023
CASA of Seneca CountyTiffin, OH$10,000222022
CASA of Seneca Sandusky and Wyandot CountiesTiffin, OH$10,000222024
Fish of Tiffin Food PantryTiffin, OH$5,000112021
Tiffin-Seneca Economic PartnershipTiffin, OH$4,645112021
Operation Hallmark IncTiffin, OH$2,850112024

12 of 20 (60%) 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 44%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 16 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
5 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$231,707$21,718
20229$253,694$30,000
20239$226,884$25,400
20249$226,262$19,000

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. 95% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$889K
New York
$50K

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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 $25,400. 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 Ohio.
  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 Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable'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: 500 First Ave P7-Pfsc-03-Z, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219. 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 31-6019431 · 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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