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The Mitchell L and Miriam Lewis Barnett

Dallas, TX · EIN 75-6292944. Reported 22 grants totalling $110,888 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$110,888granted, 2021-2023
22organizations funded

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. The Mitchell L and Miriam Lewis Barnett 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,800; the smallest was $118 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
8 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
10 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
2 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
Greenhill SchoolAddison, TX$40,000112021
Jewish Federation of Greater DallasDallas, TX$36,500112021
Hadassah Hospital-Dallas ChapterDallas, TX$10,000112021
Parish Episcopal SchoolDallas, TX$6,000112021
Dme Exchange of DallasDallas, TX$3,600112021
Jewish Family Service of Greater DallasDallas, TX$1,800112021
Planned Parenthood Federation of America IncNew York, NY$1,800112021
University of Texas at DallasRichardson, TX$1,720112021
American Jewish CommitteePhiladelphia, PA$1,000112021
Dallas Hebrew Free Loan AssociationDallas, TX$1,000112021
Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education & ToleranceDallas, TX$1,000112021
KeraDallas, TX$1,000112023
Kera RadioDallas, TX$1,000112021
The Center for Mind Body MedicineWashington, DC$1,000112021
Dallas Jewish Historical SocietyDallas, TX$500112021
Florence Melton Adult Mini-SchoolNorthbrook, IL$500112021
Friends of the Dallas Public LibraryDallas, TX$500112021
Max Glauben Holocaust Educational FoundationDallas, TX$500112021
National Council of Jewish WomenDallas, TX$500112021
Southern Methodist UniversityDallas, TX$500112021
Birthright Israel FoundationNew York, NY$350112021
Jewish Community CenterDallas, TX$118112021

0 of 22 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Plus 56 grants to individuals totalling $271,452 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
3 grants
Education
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Religion
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202121$109,888$1,000
20231$1,000$1,000

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. 96% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$106K
New York
$2K
Pennsylvania
$1K
District of Columbia
$1K
Illinois
$500

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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 $1,000. 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 Texas.
  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 The Mitchell L and Miriam Lewis Barnett'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: 13101 Preston Road Suite 110518, Dallas, TX, 75240. 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 75-6292944 · 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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