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Pratt Family Charitable Foundation

Dallas, TX · EIN 48-6350835. Reported 62 grants totalling $444,100 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,800median grant
$444,100granted, 2021-2024
28organizations funded
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,591,665assets, 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. Pratt Family Charitable Foundation 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 $3,800. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $38,600. 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
26 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
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
Hope Family Therapy IncAtchison, KS$131,000442024
Morland Community Foundation IncMorland, KS$60,000442024
Atchison Area Community FoundationAtchison, KS$55,500442024
YMCA of Greater Kansas CityAtchison, KS$55,500442024
First Judicial District CASA AssnLeavenworth, KS$31,500332024
Atchison Area Chamber of CommerceAtchison, KS$20,000442024
CASA AssociationLeavenworth, KS$13,000112021
Valley Hope Association FoundationNorton, KS$10,000222023
Atchison County Community Schools Educational FoundationEffingham, KS$9,000222024
First Presbyterian ChurchAtchison, KS$8,800442024
Fellowship of Catholic University Students-FocusGolden, CO$7,200222022
Boy Scouts of America-Lewis & Clark CnclSt Joseph, MO$6,000222024
Atchison Area United WayAtchison, KS$5,000112021
Atchison Hospital AuxiliaryAtchison, KS$4,500442024
Focus -Fellowship of Catholic University StudentsGolden, CO$4,200112023
Atchison Amelia Earhart FoundationKansas City, MO$3,500222024
Boy Scouts of America-Lewis & Clark DistrictSt Joseph, MO$3,000212022
Boy Scouts of America-Pony Express CouncilSt Joseph, MO$2,500112021
Benedictine CollegeAtchison, KS$2,400112024
Girl Scouts of Ne Kansas and Nw Missouri IncKansas City, MO$2,000222022
Highland Community College FoundationHighland, KS$2,000222022
Theatre Atchison IncAtchison, KS$2,000442024
Atchison Child Care AssociationAtchison, KS$1,500112021
Campbell Chapel AME ChurchAtchison, KS$1,000112021
City of AtchisonAtchison, KS$1,000112022
City of Atchison - a Earhart FestivalAtchison, KS$1,000112023
Boy Scouts of America-Kanza DistrictAtchison, KS$500112021
Girl Scouts of Ne Kansas & Nw MissouriKansas City, MO$500112023

16 of 28 (57%) 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 64%, 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 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 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Mental Health
6 grants
Education
4 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
Religion
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$126,900$3,050
202215$125,000$3,600
202314$85,200$4,600
202413$107,000$4,000

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. 93% 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
$415K
Missouri
$18K
Colorado
$11K

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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.

Courtney S Turner Charitable Trust8 shared recipientsEvah C Cray Residuary Charitable Trust5 shared recipientsGuy I Bromley Residuary Trust4 shared recipientsGreater Manhattan Community Foundation4 shared recipientsGreater Kansas City Community Foundation4 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,800. 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 Pratt Family Charitable Foundation'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 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. 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 48-6350835 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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