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Tr U-W Robert M Jeffress-Res Tr

Dallas, TX · EIN 54-6094925. Reported 39 grants totalling $5,878,125 to 17 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$146,780median grant
$5,878,125granted, 2021-2024
17organizations funded
100%of grantees funded again the next year
$43.3Massets, 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. Tr U-W Robert M Jeffress-Res Tr 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 $146,780. Half of everything it gave fell between $75,894 and $200,000; the smallest was $50,024 and the largest $409,233. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 and Up
22 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
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, VA$853,064442024
Rector & Visitors of UvaCharlottesville, VA$747,339442024
College of William & MaryWilliamsburg, VA$746,654332023
The Commonwealth InstituteRichmond, VA$600,000332024
Community Health Center of New RiverChristiansburg, VA$599,994332023
Virginia Health CatalystGlen Allen, VA$551,160442024
Medical College of Virginia FoundationRichmond, VA$310,813112024
George Mason UniversityFairfax, VA$299,824442024
Health Resources in ActionBoston, MA$258,371332024
Old Dominion University Research FdnNorfolk, VA$224,762222024
Ballad Health Impact of MedicalJohnson City, TN$150,000112023
Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolNorfolk, VA$150,000222023
Federation of Virginia Food BankRichmond, VA$99,974112023
Birth in ColorRichmond, VA$84,081112024
Arrow Project IncStaunton, VA$80,000112024
Institute for Public HealthWashington, DC$72,065112024
Federation of Virginia Food BanksRichmond, VA$50,024112024

10 of 17 (59%) 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 100%, 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 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
11 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20216$888,839$129,141
20229$1,404,715$152,045
202312$1,742,065$148,390
202412$1,842,506$89,166

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. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in Virginia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Virginia
$5.4M
Massachusetts
$258K
Tennessee
$150K
District of Columbia
$72K

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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 $146,780. 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 Virginia.
  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 Tr U-W Robert M Jeffress-Res Tr'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 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. 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 54-6094925 · 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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