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Mgm Charitable Scholarship Tr

Paducah, KY · EIN 61-6264013. Reported 25 grants totalling $36,750 to 13 organizations across tax years 2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$36,750granted, 2023
13organizations funded
$512,813assets, 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. Mgm Charitable Scholarship Tr 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 $1,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
7 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
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
Mccracken County High SchoolPaducah, KY$11,000212023
Murray State UniversityMurray, KY$5,500612023
University of South FloridaAtlanta, GA$5,000112023
University of KentuckyLexington, KY$4,750512023
University of LouisvilleLouisville, KY$2,250312023
Transylvania UniversityLexington, KY$2,000112023
Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS$1,000112023
Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL$1,000112023
University of MemphisMemphis, TN$1,000112023
University of MississippiUniversity, MS$1,000112023
Utah State UniversityLogan, UT$1,000112023
Western Kentucky UniversityBowling Green, KY$1,000112023
Campbellsville UniversityCampbellsville, KY$250112023
Plus 75 grants to individuals totalling $130,517 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
10 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 73% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kentucky. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Kentucky
$27K
Georgia
$5K
Mississippi
$2K
Illinois
$1K
Tennessee
$1K
Utah
$1K

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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.

Enterprise Holdings Foundation8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsFolds of Honor Foundation6 shared recipientsThe Nature Conservancy5 shared recipients

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 Kentucky.
  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 Mgm Charitable Scholarship Tr's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2831 Lone Oak Rd, Paducah, KY, 42003. 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 61-6264013 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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