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General Society of Colonial Wars
Washington, DC · EIN 23-6393310. Reported 47 grants totalling $1,097,982 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For General Society of Colonial Wars, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A800) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 36% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,926 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
27 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $678,472 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Historical Society | Detroit, MI | $230,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society Inc | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St James Goose Creek Chapel of Ease Historical Site | Aiken, SC | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation | Richmond, VA | $103,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Citadel Foundation | Charleston, SC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Ligonier Association | Ligonier, PA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Historic St Marys City Foundation Inc | St Marys City, MD | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Society of Colonial Wars in Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Ga | Savannah, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia | Heathsville, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Village Liberty Foundation | Montevallo, AL | $23,978 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Old Barracks Association | Trenton, NJ | $21,996 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Society of the Colonial Dames of America | Washington, DC | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends of Mount Harmon Inc | Earleville, MD | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York Historical Society | New York, NY | $14,046 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society of Colonial Wars of Delaware | Wilmington, DE | $13,907 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc | Plymouth, MA | $13,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bethesda Union Society of Savannah | Savannah, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brick House Ruins Preservation | Charleston, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| College of Charleston Foundation | Charleston, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gunston Hall Foundation | Mason Neck, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Historic Morven Inc | Princeton, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Historical Society | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Wayside Inn | Sudbury, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Les Amis Du Fort De Chartres | Pr Du Rocher, IL | $7,926 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society of the Cincinnati | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Historic Annapolis Inc | Annapolis, MD | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union | Mount Vernon, VA | $5,714 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fab Foundation | Boston, MA | $5,315 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 32 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- St James Goose Creek
TO PRESERVE COLONIAL SITES/ARTIFACTS - The Citadel Foundation
TO PRESERVE COLONIAL SITES/ARTIFICATS - Detroit Historical Society
TO SUPPORT THE ORIGINS: LIFE WHERE THE RIVER BENDS PROJECT - New England Historic Genealogical Society Inc
IN SUPPORT OF THE BLACK SOLDIERS IN COLONIAL CONFLICTS PROJECT - St James Church Goose Creek
IN SUPPORT OF COLONIAL RESEARCH AND PRESERVATION AT GOOSE CREEK - Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Georgia
IN SUPPORT OF THE MAY 2024 ASSEMBLY IN SAVANNAH
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $197,210 | $9,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $259,565 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 7 | $222,300 | $18,000 |
| 2024 | 13 | $418,907 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
21% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from General Society of Colonial Wars's own Form 990 Schedule I 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: 1015 15TH Street Nw 1000, Washington, DC, 20005.
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