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Ta Gambrill Foundation Ct-Main

Saint Louis, MO · EIN 57-6029520. Reported 78 grants totalling $710,050 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$9,000median grant
$710,050granted, 2021-2024
40organizations funded
60%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,516,722assets, 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. Ta Gambrill Foundation Ct-Main 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 $9,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
35 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
36 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
Anderson UniversityAnderson, SC$70,000332024
The Bridge Center RecoveryAnderson, SC$56,400442024
Hospice of the Upstate IncAnderson, SC$40,000442024
The Salvation ArmyAlexandria, VA$40,000222024
Tri-County Technical College FoundationPendleton, SC$40,000442024
Shalom House Ministries IncBelton, SC$37,000332024
Anderson Free Clinic IncAnderson, SC$30,650442024
Hope Missions of the UpstateAnderson, SC$30,000222024
Calvary Home for ChildrenAnderson, SC$28,000332024
Habitat for Humanity of Anderson IncAnderson, SC$26,000442024
Safe Harbor IncGreenville, SC$26,000442024
Cancer Association of AndersonAnderson, SC$25,000332024
Anderson Interfaith Ministries IncAnderson, SC$20,000222024
Friends of the Anderson County Museum IncAnderson, SC$20,000112021
Lot Project IncAnderson, SC$20,000332024
Meals on Wheels IncAnderson, SC$20,000332024
South Main Chapel and Mercy CenterAnderson, SC$20,000112024
Greater Anderson Musical ArtsAnderson, SC$15,000222024
Anderson Arts Center CouncilAnderson, SC$10,000112021
Anderson Interfaith MinistryAnderson, SC$10,000112021
Andersons Emergency Kitchen IncAnderson, SC$10,000112024
Belton Center for the ArtsBelton, SC$10,000332024
Meals on WheelsArlington, VA$10,000222022
Sc Faces and Voices of Recovery Sc FavorSimpsonville, SC$10,000112023
Young Mens Christian Assoc of Anderson SAnderson, SC$10,000222023
Anderson County Arts CouncilAnderson, SC$7,500112022
First LightAnderson, SC$7,500112024
The American Red CrossRiverside, CA$7,500112023
Anderson County Arts CenterAnderson, SC$5,000112024
Bart Garrison Agricultural MuseumPendleton, SC$5,000112021
Blue Ridge Council - BSAGreenville, SC$5,000112021
Boy Scouts of AmericaIrving, TX$5,000112023
Faces and Voices of Recovery GreenvilleGreenville, SC$5,000112021
Faces and Voices of Recovery UpstateWashington, DC$5,000112024
Lander Memorial LibraryWilliamston, SC$5,000112023
The Asher HouseAnderson, SC$5,000112024
YMCA of Anderson South Carolina IncAnderson, SC$5,000112021
Young Mens Christian Assoc of Anderson South Carolina IncAnderson, SC$5,000112024
Greater Anderson Musical Arts ConsortiumAnderson, SC$2,500112022
City of AndersonAnderson, SC$1,000112024

19 of 40 (48%) 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 60%, 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 47 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
Education
7 grants
Arts & Culture
6 grants
Religion
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$151,400$5,000
202215$110,500$5,000
202319$216,500$10,000
202425$231,650$10,000

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. 90% of this one's giving went to organizations in South Carolina. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

South Carolina
$643K
Virginia
$50K
California
$8K
Texas
$5K
District of Columbia
$5K

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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 Foundation16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsUnited Way of Anderson County11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsMary R Ramseur Charitable Trust8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $9,000. 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 South Carolina.
  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 Ta Gambrill Foundation Ct-Main'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 505 Mac H0006-092, Saint Louis, MO, 63166. 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 57-6029520 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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