FundersMichigan

Tummala Charitable Foundation

Flint, MI · EIN 20-8021751. Reported 82 grants totalling $236,319 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$236,319granted, 2021-2024
44organizations funded
65%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,350,823assets, 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. Tummala Charitable Foundation 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 $4,202; the smallest was $50 and the largest $10,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
30 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
33 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 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
ApfedAtlanta, GA$40,000442024
Boys and Girls Club of Greater FlinFlint, MI$30,500332023
Community Foundation of Greater FliFlint, MI$22,000442024
The YWCA of Greater FlintFlint, MI$21,000332024
Food Bank of Eastern MichiganFlint, MI$20,700442024
Kasi TempleFlint, MI$19,204442024
The Foundation for Mott CommunityFlint, MI$10,000112021
United Way of Genesee CountyFlint, MI$7,300332024
Flint Public LibraryFlint, MI$7,000442024
Sloan Museum of DiscoveryFlint, MI$6,000222024
Chinmaya Mission FlintFlint, MI$5,600442024
Catholic CharitiesFlint, MI$5,500332023
Akshaya Patra Foundation USAFremont, CA$5,000112024
The University of Michigan School OAnn Arbor, MI$5,000112022
Cord USADiamond Bar, CA$4,000222022
Flint Institute of ArtsFlint, MI$3,000112024
Ann FoundationSuwanee, GA$2,000222022
Chinmaya Education FoundationFlint, MI$2,000112023
Chinmaya Education Fund IncFlint, MI$2,000112021
Flint Jewish FoundationFlint, MI$2,000222024
NmdiFlint, MI$2,000442024
Voices for Children Advocacy CenterFlint, MI$2,000112023
American Red CrossWashington, DC$1,500112024
The Foundation for Mott Community CFlint, MI$1,500222024
Feeding AmericaWashington, DC$1,250222022
Chinmaya Mission New YorkWoodbury, NY$1,000112024
Flint Jewish FederationFlint, MI$1,000112021
Sankara Eye FoundationMilpitas, CA$1,000112024
Blind Foundation for IndiaNaperville, IL$500112021
Blind Foundation of IndiaNaperville, IL$500112024
GlacLake Orion, MI$500112024
Hurley FoundationFlint, MI$500112022
Penrickton Center for Blind ChildreTaylor, MI$500112024
Rsna - R&d FoundationOak Brook, IL$500112024
UnicefNew York, NY$500112022
Shirdi Saibaba TempleMonroeville, PA$400332024
Michigan Humane SocietyBurton, MI$350222024
Unicef USANew York, NY$350112024
Chinmaya Mission WestPlano, TX$250112021
The Salvation ArmyFlint, MI$105112022
Carriage Town MinistriesFlint, MI$100112021
Chinmaya Mission Ann ArborAnn Arbor, MI$100112022
National Multiple Sclerosis SocietyNew York, NY$60112022
Wounded Warior ProjectJacksonville, FL$50112022

19 of 44 (43%) 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 65%, 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Medical Research
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants
International Affairs
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Religion
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$55,952$1,250
202223$68,566$1,000
202315$47,100$1,000
202424$64,701$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. 75% of this one's giving went to organizations in Michigan. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Michigan
$177K
Georgia
$42K
California
$10K
District of Columbia
$3K
New York
$2K
Illinois
$2K
Pennsylvania
$400
Texas
$250

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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 Fund17 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of Greater Flint10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipients

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 Michigan.
  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 Tummala Charitable Foundation'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: 1240 Woodkrest Dr, Flint, MI, 48532. 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 20-8021751 · 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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