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Umhoefer Foundation Inc

Marshfield, WI · EIN 39-1543060. Reported 78 grants totalling $1,268,590 to 24 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,268,590granted, 2021-2024
24organizations funded
90%of grantees funded again the next year
$8,804,555assets, 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. Umhoefer Foundation Inc 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $12,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $174,455. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
4 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
26 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 and Up
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
Opportunity Development CenterWisconsin Rapids, WI$300,000442024
Marshfield Area Community FoundationMarshfield, WI$228,740442024
St Vincent DepaulMarshfield, WI$145,000332023
Soup Or SocksMarshfield, WI$124,078442024
Personal Development Center IncMarshfield, WI$62,000442024
Columbus Catholic SchoolsMarshfield, WI$61,000442024
Marshfield Area United WayMarshfield, WI$54,272442024
N Central Community Action ProgramMarshfield, WI$40,000222024
Marshfield Clinic Health System FdnMarshfield, WI$38,500222024
Marshfield Area Habitat for HumanityMarshfield, WI$30,000442024
Childrens Wisconsin MarshfieldMarshfield, WI$25,000222024
University FoundationMadison, WI$25,000222022
Uw Stevens Point at MarshfieldMarshfield, WI$25,000222024
Shirley's House of HopeMarshfield, WI$23,000442024
The Hannah Center IncMarshfield, WI$17,000442024
Lucille Tack Center for the ArtsSpencer, WI$12,500442024
Chestnut Avenue Center for the ArtsMarshfield, WI$11,500442024
Mid-State Technical CollegeWisconsin Rapids, WI$10,000222022
St Joseph's Hospital AuxiliaryMarshfield, WI$10,000222022
Mid-State Technical College Fdn IncWisconsin Rapids, WI$8,000222024
National Brain Tumor SocietyNewton, MA$8,000442024
School Sisters of Notre DameElm Grove, WI$5,000442024
Compassus Living FoundationMarshfield, WI$3,000332023
Saint John's UniversityJamaica, NY$2,000442024

24 of 24 (100%) 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 90%, 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$264,378$5,000
202219$357,455$5,000
202321$319,485$8,000
202419$327,272$8,000

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. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Wisconsin
$1.3M
Massachusetts
$8K
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 $5,000. 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 Wisconsin.
  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 Umhoefer Foundation Inc'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: 400 S Chestnut Ave, Marshfield, WI, 54449. 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 39-1543060 · 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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