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Ring Vp SR Charitable Foundation

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 43-6018932. Reported 44 grants totalling $39,054 to 18 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$906median grant
$39,054granted, 2020-2023
18organizations funded
82%of grantees funded again the next year
$236,859assets, 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. Ring Vp SR 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 $906. Half of everything it gave fell between $600 and $1,150; the smallest was $250 and the largest $1,200. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
25 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
19 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
Little Sisters of the PoorSt Louis, MO$3,856442023
Mount St JosephLake Zurich, IL$3,856442023
Mt Grace ConventSt Louis, MO$3,856442023
Operation Food SearchSt Louis, MO$3,856442023
St Vincent Depaul SocietySt Louis, MO$3,856442023
Carmel of St LouisSt Louis, MO$3,256332022
Christian Brothers College High SchoolLincroft, NJ$3,256332022
Sacred Heart ChurchValley Park, MO$3,256442023
Good Shepherd Children and Family ServicesSt Louis, MO$2,950332023
Holy Trinity Catholic ChurchSt Louis, MO$2,106222021
St John Vianney High SchoolKirkwood, MO$1,750222023
Carmel of St JosephSt Louis, MO$600112023
Christian Brothers College High SchoolSt Louis, MO$600112023
De Smet Jesuit High SchoolSt Louis, MO$600112023
St Agnes HomeKirkwood, MO$600112021
White House RetreatSt Louis, MO$300112023
Our Lady's InnSt Louis, MO$250112020
St Patrick CenterSt Louis, MO$250112020

11 of 18 (61%) 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 82%, 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 7 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202011$8,654$906
202111$12,000$1,200
202210$11,500$1,150
202312$6,900$600

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. 82% of this one's giving went to organizations in Missouri. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Missouri
$32K
Illinois
$4K
New Jersey
$3K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsSt Louis Community Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsRoman Catholic Foundation of Eastern6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $906. 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 Missouri.
  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 Ring Vp SR Charitable Foundation'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: Po Box 0634, Milwaukee, WI, 53201. 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 43-6018932 · 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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