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Al Webster Foundation

Danville, IL · EIN 37-0682989. Reported 41 grants totalling $199,015 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,700median grant
$199,015granted, 2021-2024
20organizations funded
60%of grantees funded again the next year
$949,148assets, 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. Al Webster 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 $4,700. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,145 and $6,631; the smallest was $515 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
20 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

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
Cris Healthy AgingDanville, IL$32,735442024
Hoopeston Multi AgencyHoopeston, IL$31,737442024
United Way of Danville AreaDanville, IL$19,500332024
Boys and Girls Club of DanvilleDanville, IL$18,000442024
Fair Hope Childrens MinistryDanville, IL$17,700442024
Vermilion County Handicapped AssociationDanville, IL$11,500222024
Vermilion County Handicap AssociationDanville, IL$10,000112021
Vermilion Heritage FoundationDanville, IL$9,881222022
The Dwelling Place of Vermilion CountyDanville, IL$8,500222024
Crosspoint Human ServicesDanville, IL$8,000222024
Danville Family YMCADanville, IL$6,702332024
Danville Foundation for Industrial GrowthDanville, IL$6,000112023
The Salvation ArmyDanville, IL$4,000112022
Danville Area Soccer AssociationDanville, IL$3,145112022
St Vincent De Paul SocietyDanville, IL$3,000112024
Danville YMCADanville, IL$2,633112021
Hope CenterDanville, IL$1,965222024
Survivor Resource CenterDanville, IL$1,517112021
Children's Dyslexia Center ClubDanville, IL$1,500112021
The Dwelling Place of Vermilion CoDanville, IL$1,000112021

11 of 20 (55%) 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 60%, 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 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$50,000$4,000
202210$50,000$4,137
20239$50,000$5,000
202411$49,015$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

Danville, IL
$167K
Hoopeston, IL
$32K

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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.

John P Cadle Foundation6 shared recipientsIroquois Federal Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsVermilion Healthcare Foundation5 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of East Central3 shared recipientsUnited Way of Champaign County3 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,700. 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 Illinois.
  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 Al Webster 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: Po Box 946, Danville, IL, 61834. 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 37-0682989 · 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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