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Fleischmann Foundation

Cincinnati, OH · EIN 31-6025516. Reported 157 grants totalling $1,634,130 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$1,634,130granted, 2021-2024
58organizations funded
86%of grantees funded again the next year
$10.8Massets, 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. Fleischmann 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $974,130. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
38 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
60 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
34 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$100,000 and Up
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
Dumbarton OaksCincinnati, OH$974,130112023
Woodcock Nature Preserve IncWilton, CT$80,000442024
Massachusetts Audubon SocietyLincoln, MA$51,625442024
Cincinnati Symphony OrchestraCincinnati, OH$50,000442024
Project YogaCincinnati, OH$38,625332023
Indian Hill ChurchCincinnati, OH$35,750442024
Green UmbrellaCincinnati, OH$35,000332024
Kestrel Land TrustAmherst, MA$32,750442024
Planned Parenthood League of MassachusettsBoston, MA$27,500442024
Vermont Center for PhotographyBrattleboro, VT$22,000442024
Dega Mobile Veterinary CareFuquay Varina, NC$20,625332024
Harmony Animal Rescue ClinicApex, NC$20,625332024
Union of Concerned ScientistsCambridge, MA$18,500442024
Inter Parish MinistriesNewtown, OH$17,500442024
WGBH Educational FoundationBoston, MA$17,250442024
St Christopher's Episcopal ChurhChatham, MA$16,000442024
Miss Porters SchoolFarmington, CT$13,750222022
American Farmland TrustWashington, DC$13,000222024
Cincinnati Off-Road AllianceCincinnati, OH$13,000112024
Chatham Orpheum TheaterChatham, MA$12,000442024
Bates CollegeLewiston, ME$11,500332023
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Wake CountyRaleigh, NC$10,000112021
Spoleto Festival USACharleston, SC$10,000222022
Chatham Conservation FoundationChatham, MA$7,500442024
100 FriendsNewport Beach, CA$7,000112024
Chatham Historical SocietyChatham, MA$7,000442024
Friends of Chatham WaterwaysChatham, MA$7,000442024
League of Women Voters Education FundWashington, DC$6,000442024
National Public Radio FoundationBaltimore, MD$6,000442024
Mystic SeaportMystic, CT$5,000112021
Center for Coastal StudiesProvincetown, MA$4,000442024
Christ Hospital FoundationCincinnati, OH$4,000112023
Natural Resources Defense CouncilNew York, NY$4,000442024
Greater Dayton Public TelevisionCincinnati, OH$3,500332024
Spring Lake RanchCuttingsville, VT$3,000332024
We Can CorporationHarwich Port, MA$3,000332024
The Madeira and Indian Hill Fire CompanyIndian Hill, OH$2,500332024
Greater Cincinnati TelevisionCincinnati, OH$2,250442024
Sterling CollegeSterling, KS$2,250442024
Association to Preserve Cape CodDennis, MA$2,000222024
Eldredge Public LibraryChatham, MA$2,000442024
Boston UniversityBoston, MA$1,750222024
Thinktv NetworkDayton, OH$1,500112021
Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA$1,250442024
Chatham Food PantryChatham, MA$1,000112021
Madeira Indian Hill Fire CompanyIndian Hill, OH$1,000112021
Monomoy Community ServicesChatham, MA$1,000112021
Nature ConservancyArlington, VA$1,000112021
The Craig and Frances Lindner Center of HopeMason, OH$1,000112022
WburBoston, MA$1,000222022
Atlantic White Shark ConservancyChatham, MA$750222024
Cincinnati Country Day SchoolCincinnati, OH$750332024
Fairfield UniversityFairfield, CT$750222024
President and Fellows of HarvardCambridge, MA$750332024
American Friends of the OceanNew York, NY$500112024
New Canaan Library IncNew Canaan, CT$500112024
International Rescue CommitteeLouisville, KY$250112023
Seton Center IncKansas City, MO$250112023

42 of 58 (72%) 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 86%, 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 91 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
25 grants
Education
18 grants
Arts & Culture
17 grants
Animal Welfare
7 grants
Health Care
5 grants
International Affairs
5 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202135$165,000$1,500
202238$165,000$2,250
202343$1,139,130$2,000
202441$165,000$2,000

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. 72% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$1.2M
Massachusetts
$216K
Connecticut
$100K
North Carolina
$51K
Vermont
$25K
District of Columbia
$19K
Maine
$12K
South Carolina
$10K

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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 $2,000. 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 Ohio.
  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 Fleischmann 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 532120, Cincinnati, OH, 45253. 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 31-6025516 · 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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