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Robert F Henry Foundation

Montgomery, AL · EIN 63-6053365. Reported 89 grants totalling $39,200 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$300median grant
$39,200granted, 2021-2024
34organizations funded
81%of grantees funded again the next year
$221,317assets, 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. Robert F Henry 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 $300. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $1,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
75 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
14 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
Montgomery County Historical SocietyMontgomery, AL$4,800442024
Huntingdon CollegeMontgomery, AL$4,600442024
Child Evangelism FellowshipBirmingham, AL$4,500442024
Stegall Seminary FoundationMontgomery, AL$4,100442024
CruOrlando, FL$3,000442024
Mission to the WorldAtlanta, GA$2,000442024
Montgomery Christian SchoolMontgomery, AL$1,600332024
Trinity Presbyterian ChurchMontgomery, AL$1,200442024
Harvard Business SchoolBoston, MA$1,100332023
Dorcas MinistryCary, NC$1,000222022
Isaiah 55 MinistriesLa Feria, TX$1,000442024
Institute of Creation ResearchDallas, TX$900442024
Troy Public RadioTroy, AL$900222022
Voice of the MartyrsBartlesville, OK$900442024
Alabama Public TelevisionBirmingham, AL$800222022
Montgomery Humane SocietyMontgomery, AL$800332024
Altadena Valley Presbyterian ChurchBirmingham, AL$500112022
Cahaba Park ChurchBirmingham, AL$500112022
Montgomery Area Council on AgingMontgomery, AL$500222022
Montgomery Botanical GardensMontgomery, AL$500112022
National Society of Daughters of American RevolutionWashington, DC$500442024
Conde-Charlotte HouseMobile, AL$400442024
Dumbarton HouseWashington, DC$400442024
Friends of Gunston HallMason Neck, VA$400442024
Sulgrave ManorWashington, DC$400442024
Mary Ellen's HearthMontgomery, AL$300112021
United Methodist Children's HomeMontgomery, AL$300112021
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$200112021
First ChoiceMontgomery, AL$200112022
First United Methodist ChurchMontgomery, AL$200112021
Friendship MissionMontgomery, AL$200112023
Prcc Chaplain MinistriesCharlotte, NC$200112022
United Way of AlabamaBirmingham, AL$200112021
Cahaba FoundationSelma, AL$100112022

22 of 34 (65%) 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 81%, 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 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
7 grants
Arts & Culture
6 grants
Science & Technology
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$8,900$250
202228$10,700$200
202318$9,500$300
202417$10,100$300

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. 69% of this one's giving went to organizations in Alabama. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Alabama
$27K
Florida
$3K
Georgia
$2K
Texas
$2K
District of Columbia
$1K
North Carolina
$1K
Massachusetts
$1K
Oklahoma
$900

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc9 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsThe Daniel Foundation of Alabama5 shared recipientsCrum Family Charitable Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $300. 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 Alabama.
  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 Robert F Henry 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: Co Regions Bank Po Box 2450, Montgomery, AL, 36102. 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 63-6053365 · 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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