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William J and Dora J Kalnoski Memorial

Bloomsburg, PA · EIN 25-1882103. Reported 44 grants totalling $216,375 to 18 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,800median grant
$216,375granted, 2021-2024
18organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,261,599assets, 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. William J and Dora J Kalnoski Memorial 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 $3,800. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $6,000; the smallest was $875 and the largest $16,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
25 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 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
Kutztown UniversityKutztown, PA$33,450442024
Marywood UniversityScranton, PA$32,275332024
Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$28,650442024
Pennsylvania College of TechnologyWilliamsport, PA$20,900442024
Allbright CollegeReading, PA$14,425442024
Lebanon Valley CollegeAnnville, PA$13,300332023
Lehigh Carbon Community CollegeSchnecksville, PA$10,050332024
Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$9,800222022
Bloomsburg UniversityBloomsburg, PA$9,500222023
Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$8,550332023
Wilkes UniversityWilkesbarre, PA$8,250222024
Luzerne County Community CollegeNanticoke, PA$6,800222022
Pennsylvania College of Art & DesignLancaster, PA$5,700112021
Susquehanna UniversitySelinsgrove, PA$5,375222024
Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland, OH$3,800112021
University of the ArtsPhiladelphia, PA$2,775222023
Millersville UniversityMillersville, PA$1,900112021
University of HartfordWest Hartford, CT$875112023

14 of 18 (78%) 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 62%, 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 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
25 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$43,700$3,800
202211$74,400$6,000
202312$48,275$3,500
20248$50,000$4,500

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. 98% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$212K
Ohio
$4K
Connecticut
$875

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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 Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsSnayberger Memorial Fdn (pf)8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,800. 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 Pennsylvania.
  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 William J and Dora J Kalnoski Memorial'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: 1199 Lightstreet Road, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815. 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 25-1882103 · 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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