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Olberg Mcfall Family Foundation Inc

New York, NY · EIN 32-0451490. Reported 36 grants totalling $42,166 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$42,166granted, 2021-2024
23organizations funded
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$229,752assets, 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. Olberg Mcfall Family Foundation Inc 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $8,333. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
24 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
10 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 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
St Michael Church St Michael ChurchNew York City, NY$18,666442024
The Corporation of Yaddo the Corporation of YaddoNew York City, NY$4,000222024
Yaddo YaddoSaratoga Springs, NY$3,500112021
Wild Bird Fund Wild Bird FundNew York City, NY$2,500332024
Bellevue Literary Review Bellevue Literary ReviewNew York City, NY$2,000442024
Lewisboro Land Trust Lewisboro Land TrustSouth Salem, NY$1,250222024
Bedford Audubon Society Bedford Audubon SocietyKatonah, NY$1,000112021
Riverside Park Conservancy Riverside Park ConservancyNew York, NY$1,000112021
School Year Abroad School Year AbroadNorh Andover, MA$1,000222024
The Macdowell Colony the Macdowell ColonyPeterborough, NH$1,000222024
Virginia Center for Creative Arts Virginia Center for Creative ArtsAmherst, VA$1,000222024
Boys & Girls Club Northern Westches Boys & Girls Club North WestchesterMt Kisco, NY$500112024
Central Park Conservancy Central Park ConservancyNew York City, NY$500112021
Community Center Northern Westchest Community Center Northern WestchesterKatonah, NY$500112024
Cornell University Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$500112024
New York Common Pantry New York Common PantryNew York City, NY$500112024
New York Haiti Project New York Haiti ProjectBronx, NY$500112024
Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Pegasus Therapeutic RidingBrewster, NY$500112024
Puppies Behind Bars Puppies Behind BarsNew York City, NY$500112024
Volunteers of Legal Services Volunteers of Legal ServicesNew York City, NY$500112024
Immune Deficiency Foundation Immune Deficiency FoundationHanover, MD$250112024
Katonah Museum of Art Katonah Museum of ArtKatonah, NY$250112024
Katonah Public Library Katonah Public LibraryKatonah, NY$250112024

8 of 23 (35%) 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 67%, 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 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 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Education
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$11,000$1,000
20223$9,333$500
20233$10,833$2,000
202419$11,000$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. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$39K
Virginia
$1K
New Hampshire
$1K
Massachusetts
$1K
Maryland
$250

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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 $500. 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 New York.
  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 Olberg Mcfall Family Foundation Inc'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: 924 West End Ave Apt 101, New York, NY, 10025. 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 32-0451490 · 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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