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The Moulton Family Charitable Trust

Birmingham, AL · EIN 58-6343928. Reported 146 grants totalling $574,500 to 56 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$574,500granted, 2021-2024
56organizations funded
86%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,254,358assets, 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. The Moulton Family Charitable Trust 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
82 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
47 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 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
Cathedral Church of the AdventBirmingham, AL$38,000442024
St Luke's Episcopal ChurchMountain Brook, AL$38,000442024
Samaritans PurseAlpharetta, GA$32,000442024
Telluride Mountain SchoolTelluride, CO$32,000442024
Christ Presbyterian ChurchHelena, AL$29,000442024
Vestavia Hills City School FoundationVestavia Hills, AL$24,000442024
St Paul's Episcopal ChurchAlbany, AL$22,500442024
Big Oak RanchSpringville, AL$22,000442024
Rucker Collier FoundationWilmington, DE$20,000442024
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$20,000442024
Tumtum Tree FoundationBirmingham, AL$15,000112024
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of AlabamaBirmingham, AL$14,000442024
The Sybil Temple FoundationVestavia Hills, AL$14,000442024
Uab Comprehensive Cancer CenterBirmingham, AL$14,000442024
American Red CrossHoover, AL$13,000442024
Telluride Medical FoundationTelluride, CO$12,000442024
Jimmie Hale MissionBirmingham, AL$11,000442024
Telluride Adaptive Sports ProgramTelluride, CO$11,000442024
The FoundryBirmingham, AL$11,000442024
Uab School of NursingBirmingham, AL$11,000332024
Camp RockmountBlack Mountain, NC$10,000112024
Crippled Children's FoundationBirmingham, AL$10,000222022
Monday Morning Quarterback ClubBirmingham, AL$10,000222024
The Center for Executive LeadershipBirmingham, AL$10,000222022
Turning Point FoundationThorsby, AL$10,000222024
Honeyword Foundation IncChelsea, AL$9,000442024
Boys & Girls Club of AlbanyAlbany, GA$8,000442024
Cornerstone Schools of AlabamaBirmingham, AL$8,000442024
Feed the ChildrenOklahoma City, OK$8,000442024
St Jude's Children Research HospitalMemphis, TN$8,000442024
Carry WellBirmingham, AL$6,000332024
Children's of AlabamaBirmingham, AL$6,000332023
Marion Medical MissionMarion, IL$6,000332023
Lindsey Mobley Zebra FundBirmingham, AL$5,000112024
Maui United WayKahului, HI$5,000112023
Moffett & Sanders School of NursingBirmingham, AL$5,000112024
Pathways Early Learning CenterChristianburg, VA$5,000112024
Quarterbacking Children's Health FoundationBirmingham, AL$5,000112024
Salvation ArmyBirmingham, AL$5,000442024
Wine to WaterBoone, NC$5,000112024
Vestavia Hills Library FoundationVestavia Hills, AL$4,000222024
Story Tellers LiveBirmingham, AL$3,000112024
Telluride Mountain ClubTelluride, CO$3,000332024
Best Buddies InternationalMiami, FL$2,000222023
Birmingham Humane SocietyBirmingham, AL$2,000222024
Blessed BrokennessBirmingham, AL$2,000112021
Mustard Seed SocietyPell City, AL$2,000112021
Pete Petro Scholarship Fund Brock School of Business Samford UniversityBirmingham, AL$2,000222024
Alabama Public TelevisionBirmingham, AL$1,000112024
Big Dog Ranch RescueLoxahatchee Groves, FL$1,000112024
Birmingham Children's TheatreBirmingham, AL$1,000112021
J Andrew Crumpton Legal Scholarship FundToccoa, GA$1,000112022
Legacy League of Samford UniversityBirmingham, AL$1,000112024
WARRIOR2WARRIOR FoundationAlexandria, VA$1,000112022
Crestline Cougar PTOBirmingham, AL$500112023
JR Spartan PTOBirmingham, AL$500112023

37 of 56 (66%) 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 86%, 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 52 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

International Affairs
9 grants
Health Care
8 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Medical Research
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Education
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202131$103,000$2,000
202235$133,000$3,000
202337$131,000$2,000
202443$207,500$5,000

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. 67% 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
$384K
Colorado
$58K
Georgia
$41K
Delaware
$20K
New York
$20K
North Carolina
$15K
Oklahoma
$8K
Tennessee
$8K

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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 Fund20 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc18 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc14 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc14 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program13 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Greater12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 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 The Moulton Family Charitable Trust'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: 800 Shades Creek Pkwy Ste 125, Birmingham, AL, 35209. 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 58-6343928 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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