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Peyton Samuel Head Family Trust

Saint Louis, MO · EIN 61-6183556. Reported 81 grants totalling $1,781,139 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$12,000median grant
$1,781,139granted, 2021-2024
46organizations funded
55%of grantees funded again the next year
$11.4Massets, 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. Peyton Samuel Head Family Trust 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 $12,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $7,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $4,000 and the largest $112,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
30 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 and Up
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
Oldham County Educational Foundation IncCrestwood, KY$217,000222024
Oldham County Educational FdnCrestwood, KY$178,087222022
Oldham County Fiscal CourtLagrange, KY$158,810442024
Humane Society of Oldham County IncLagrange, KY$156,922442024
Oldham Co Historical Society IncLagrange, KY$114,055222024
Oldham County Historical SocietyLagarange, KY$111,000222022
Hope Health Clinic IncLa Grange, KY$75,000442024
Oldham County Water DistrictLagrange, KY$63,500332024
Mallory Taylor FoundationLagrange, KY$60,000332023
St Francis High SchoolGoshen, KY$50,000112021
Good News Shelter CorporationLa Grange, KY$45,000332024
Flying Cross Horse Park IncPewee Valley, KY$40,000112024
Yew Dell IncCrestwood, KY$40,000112022
Brownsboro Community Center IncCrestwood, KY$38,500112022
City of La GrangeLa Grange, TX$32,500222024
Friends of Pewee Valley IncPewee Valley, KY$31,800442024
Kris Landers Foundation IncLagrange, KY$30,000112021
North Oldham Band Boosters IncGoshen, KY$23,000442024
Creasey Mahan Nature PreserveGoshen, KY$20,000112024
Oldham County Arts AssociationLagrange, KY$20,000112021
The Little Colonel Players IncPewee Valley, KY$20,000222022
Mt Tabor United Methodis ChurchCrestwood, KY$19,850332024
La Grange Christian ChurchLa Grange, NC$17,600222024
South Oldham Fire Department IncCrestwood, KY$15,000112023
City of LagrangeLagrange, KY$14,000112021
Junior Achievement of KenuckianaLouisville, KY$13,000222023
Oldham County High School Band Boosters IncLa Grange, KY$13,000222024
South Oldham High School Band Boosters ICrestwood, KY$13,000222024
Friends of the MaplesCrestwood, KY$12,500112023
Crossroads Lagrange Main St Program IncLagrange, KY$12,000112022
Ballardsville Rural Fire Protection DistCrestwood, KY$10,000112023
Covenant United Methodist ChurchLancaster, PA$10,000112024
Covenant United Methodist Church of LagrLagrange, KY$10,000112022
Ohio Valley Railroad Historical FoundationLagrange, KY$10,000112021
Oldham County High School BandBuckner, KY$10,000222022
Operation Parent IncBuckner, KY$10,000112022
South Oldham High School Band BoostersCrestwood, KY$10,000222022
Pewee Valley Fire District Foundation inPewee Valley, KY$8,000112023
Westport Fire Department IncWestport, KY$8,000112023
Highpoint Charitable Services IncLa Grange, KY$7,300112024
Junior Achievement USAColorado Spgs, CO$7,000112022
Little League Baseball IncWilliamsport, PA$5,715112024
CASA IncAlbany, NY$5,000112023
CASA IncLouisville, KY$5,000112021
Fund for the Arts IncLouisville, KY$5,000112023
Little League Baseball Inc Dba South Oldham Little LeagueCrestwood, KY$5,000112021

21 of 46 (46%) 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 55%, 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 39 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
11 grants
Community Improvement
6 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$425,047$12,000
202219$490,700$15,000
202323$451,400$10,000
202419$413,992$14,000

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. 96% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kentucky. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Kentucky
$1.7M
Texas
$32K
North Carolina
$18K
Pennsylvania
$16K
Colorado
$7K
New York
$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.

The Community Foundation of11 shared recipientsMightycause Charitable Foundation8 shared recipientsHonorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsMahan Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Louisville7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $12,000. 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 Kentucky.
  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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Peyton Samuel Head Family Trust'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 505 Mac H0006-092, Saint Louis, MO, 63166. 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 61-6183556 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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