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Tu Clause 3RD Wo Ellis Gimbel

Madison, CT · EIN 23-6503956. Reported 48 grants totalling $452,300 to 24 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$452,300granted, 2021-2024
24organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,564,883assets, 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. Tu Clause 3RD Wo Ellis Gimbel 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $7,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,850 and the largest $41,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
7 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
30 grants
$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
The Rangeley Health and Wellness CenterRangeley, ME$61,000332023
Environmental Learning CenterBristol, CT$40,000442024
Girl Scouts of CtHartford, CT$40,000442024
Beth Brunswick Memorial FundRangeley, ME$30,000112024
Philadelphia Ronald Mcdonald HousePhiladelphia, PA$30,000332024
The Charter Oak Cultural CenterHartford, CT$30,000332024
The Village for Families and ChildrenHartford, CT$27,500332024
Playtime ProjectWashington, DC$25,000332024
Real Art WaysHartford, CT$20,000222024
St Vicent De Paul of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$20,000222023
Federation Early Learning ServicesPhiladelphia, PA$15,000222023
Horizons for Homeless ChildrenRoxbury, MA$15,000222022
Music HavenNew Haven, CT$14,850222023
Dances With WoodClinton, CT$12,000222024
Ct Children's Medical Center FoundationHartford, CT$10,000112021
Girls and Boys Club of PhilaPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Hartford Public LibraryHartford, CT$10,000112021
HomefrontLawrenceville, NJ$10,000222024
St Vincent De Paul of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$10,000112024
Students Run Philly StylePhiladelphia, PA$6,800222022
Family PromiseRidgewood, NJ$6,000112023
Locket's Meadow Rescue and Animal SanctuaryBethany, CT$4,800112023
Hfh Summer Camps - WakondaNew York, NY$2,500112022
Seven Angels TheatreWaterbury, CT$1,850112023

15 of 24 (62%) 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 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
11 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Education
4 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202112$111,300$10,000
202211$114,000$10,000
202314$115,000$10,000
202411$112,000$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. 47% of this one's giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Connecticut
$211K
Maine
$91K
Pennsylvania
$62K
Maryland
$30K
District of Columbia
$25K
New Jersey
$16K
Massachusetts
$15K
New York
$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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. 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 Connecticut.
  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 Tu Clause 3RD Wo Ellis Gimbel'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: 34 Wildcat Springs Drive, Madison, CT, 06443. 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 23-6503956 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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