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Langston Family Foundation

Anchorage, AK · EIN 99-0330063. Reported 29 grants totalling $104,550 to 28 organizations across tax years 2022-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$104,550granted, 2022-2024
28organizations funded
$4,248,217assets, 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. Langston Family 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $4,500; the smallest was $750 and the largest $13,000. 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
21 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 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
Election Fairness InstitutePhoenix, AZ$13,000112024
Artreach San DiegoSan Diego, CA$6,000112024
Society of Fire Protection EngineersIdaho Falls, ID$6,000222024
Taking the ReinsLos Angeles, CA$6,000112024
Alaska Boxing AcademyAnchorage, AK$5,000112024
Capt Sax FoundationLincoln, CA$5,000112024
Intervarsity Christian FellowshipSan Diego, CA$5,000112024
Ronald Mcdonald HouseSan Diego, CA$5,000112024
Community Pregnancy Center of AnchorageAnchorage, AK$4,500112024
Cook Inlet Soccer ClubAnchorage, AK$4,300112024
Beacon HillAnchorage, AK$4,000112024
Central Oregon Alpine Ski FoundationBend, OR$4,000112024
Grace Christian SchoolAnchorage, AK$4,000112024
Ball Ventures Legacy FoundationIdaho Falls, ID$3,300112024
Johnson County Family YMCABuffalo, WY$3,000112024
Johnson County School DistrictBuffalo, WY$3,000112024
Keep Sedona BeautifulSedona, AZ$3,000112024
Miami WaterkeeperMiami, FL$3,000112024
Patrick Henry High FoundationSan Diego, CA$2,500112024
Arc of AnchorageAnchorage, AK$2,000112024
Bayshore Elementary PTAAnchorage, AK$2,000112024
San Diego Civic Youth BalletSan Diego, CA$2,000112024
Sedona Red Rock Trail FundSedona, AZ$2,000112024
Zions HopeWinter Garden, FL$2,000112024
Wind River DojoLander, WY$1,500112024
Wyoming Council of Catholic WomenCasper, WY$1,500112024
Pacific City Dorymans AssocPacific City, OR$1,200112024
Covenant Presbyterian ChurchLander, WY$750112024

1 of 28 (4%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Plus 88 grants to individuals totalling $270,481 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 13 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Education
2 grants
Environment
2 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20221$4,000$4,000
202428$100,550$3,000

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. 30% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$32K
Alaska
$26K
Arizona
$18K
Wyoming
$10K
Idaho
$9K
Oregon
$5K
Florida
$5K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipientsThe Alaska Community Foundation5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 California.
  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 Langston Family 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: 3705 Arctic Blvd 485, Anchorage, AK, 99503. 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 99-0330063 · 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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