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Pumpkin Hill Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank

Cincinnati, OH · EIN 02-0500977. Reported 59 grants totalling $259,000 to 21 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,000median grant
$259,000granted, 2021-2024
21organizations funded
80%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,293,561assets, 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. Pumpkin Hill Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank 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 $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
33 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
25 grants
$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
Blackfoot Challenge IncOvando, MT$32,000442024
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation InitiativeBozeman, MT$32,000442024
Little Peaks IncKeene, NY$25,000442024
Keene Valley Library AssociationKeene Valley, NY$20,000442024
Alaska Avalanche School IncAnchorage, AK$18,500442024
Coalition for Susitna Dam AlternativesTalkeetna, AK$18,500442024
Northern Lights Wildlife SocietySmithers, British Columbia$17,000442024
Musk Ox Development CorporationPalmer, AK$16,500442024
Alaska Wildbird Rehabilitation CenterBig Lake, AK$13,000332023
University of Florida FoundationGainesville, FL$11,000332023
Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative Inc SUNY PotsdamPotsdam, NY$10,000222024
East Branch Friends of the ArtsKeene Valley, NY$9,000332023
The United States Pony Clubs IncPalmer, AK$8,000222024
Alpenglow Pony ClubPalmer, AK$7,000222023
Nelson Community Food Centre SocietyNelson, British Columbia$4,000222024
Owl (orphaned Wildlife)Delta, British Columbia$4,000112022
South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for OwlsOliver, British Columbia$4,000332024
Algonquin to Adirondacks Colla Borative IncPotsdam, NY$3,000112022
Mat-Su Trails & Parks FoundationPalmer, AK$2,500222023
Nelson Community Food CentreNelson, British Columbia$2,000222022
Owl (orphaned Wildlife) Rehabilitation SocietyDelta, British Columbia$2,000112023

18 of 21 (86%) 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 80%, 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 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
12 grants
Education
11 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$67,500$5,000
202215$62,500$4,000
202317$62,000$3,500
202412$67,000$6,000

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. 32% of this one's giving went to organizations in Alaska. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Alaska
$84K
New York
$67K
Montana
$64K
British Columbia
$33K
Florida
$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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Alaska.
  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 Pumpkin Hill Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank'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 630858, Cincinnati, OH, 45263. 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 02-0500977 · 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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