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Stanley H Byram Foundation

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 35-6007637. Reported 117 grants totalling $428,631 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$428,631granted, 2021-2024
35organizations funded
93%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,517,538assets, 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. Stanley H Byram 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,250 and $3,699; the smallest was $500 and the largest $18,998. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
12 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
80 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 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
American Red CrossIndianapolis, IN$54,301442024
Community Foundation of Morgan County inMartinsville, IN$47,445332024
Metropolitan School DistrictMartinsville, IN$41,750332024
Dallas Clark FoundationLivermore, IA$28,375442024
Gleaner's Food BankIndianapolis, IN$27,129442024
Second Helpings IncIndianapolis, IN$21,763442024
Wheeler Mission MinistriesIndianapolis, IN$20,000442024
Community Service CenterMartinsville, IN$18,222222022
Martinsville High SchoolMartinsville, IN$15,000112021
American Cancer SocietyMarinsville, IN$14,375442024
Barbara B Jordan YMCAMartinsville, IN$14,023442024
Morgan County Humae SocietyMartinsville, IN$9,125442024
Martinsville Youth CenterMartinsville, IN$8,725442024
James Whitcomb Riley Festival AssocGreenfield, IN$8,450442024
First Christian ChurchMarion, IN$8,153442024
Alzehimers AssociationIndianapolis, IN$8,050442024
USOWashington, DC$6,750332023
Martinsville Police Clothe-a-Child IncMartinsville, IN$6,725332024
Olivet Nazarene CollegeBourbonnais, IL$6,100442024
Indiana Dream TeamMartinsville, IN$5,995442024
The United Methodist ChurchAtlanta, GA$5,500222024
Centeral Indiana Community FoundationIndianapolis, IN$5,050442024
Habitat for HumanityMartinsville, IN$4,875442024
Hoosier Harvest ChurchMartinsville, IN$4,875442024
First United Methodist ChurchMartinsville, IN$4,750222022
Gennesaret Free ClinicIndianapolis, IN$4,450442024
Depauw University Alumni FundGreencastle, IN$4,375442024
Desert Rose FoundationMartinsville, IN$4,375442024
Care Net Pregnancy CenterMartinsville, IN$3,750332023
Center for Women's MinistriesMartinsville, IN$3,125442024
Noble IncIndianapolis, IN$3,125442024
The Julian CenterIndianapolis, IN$3,125442024
Community Service Center of Morgan County IncMartinsville, IN$2,500112024
United Service Organization IncGrove City, OH$2,300112024
Clothe-a-ChildMartinsville, IN$2,000112021

31 of 35 (89%) 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 93%, 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.

Human Services
23 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202129$104,004$2,000
202230$116,758$2,375
202329$111,318$2,075
202429$96,551$2,175

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. 89% of this one's giving went to organizations in Indiana. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Indiana
$380K
Iowa
$28K
District of Columbia
$7K
Illinois
$6K
Georgia
$6K
Ohio
$2K

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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.

Duke Energy Foundation7 shared recipientsUnited Way of Central Indiana Inc7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsLilly Endowment Inc5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. 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 Indiana.
  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 Stanley H Byram 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: 500 First Ave P7-Pfsc-03-Z, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219. 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 35-6007637 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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