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Richard M Snow Foundation Inc

Tuscaloosa, AL · EIN 72-1371215. Reported 89 grants totalling $28,184 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$200median grant
$28,184granted, 2021-2024
40organizations funded
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$218,363assets, 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. Richard M Snow 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 $200. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $300; the smallest was $50 and the largest $2,700. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
85 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
4 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
First Pres Church of TuscaloosaTuscaloosa, AL$9,300442024
Salvation ArmyTuscaloosa, AL$1,700442024
Theatre TuscaloosaTuscaloosa, AL$1,400442024
Tuscaloosa Symphony OrchestraTuscaloosa, AL$1,250332023
University of Alabama Fine Arts Theatre & DanceTuscaloosa, AL$1,200222024
Alabama Public RadioTuscaloosa, AL$1,150642024
Boy ScoutsTuscaloosa, AL$1,050442024
University of Alabama Capstone College of NursingTuscaloosa, AL$900222022
First Pres Church UkraineTuscaloosa, AL$800112021
Sierra Club Ala ChapterDuncalville, AL$750442024
Nature ConservancyArlington, VA$650442024
Actors Charitable TheatreTuscaloosa, AL$600332024
Cornell Lab of OrnitholgyBoone, IA$575442024
Sierra Club Member CareMerrifield, VA$550332023
Wbhm Birmingham Public RadioBirmingham, AL$550222022
West Alabama Food BankTuscaloosa, AL$550332023
Freedom FarmCoker, AL$500112024
University of Alabama James Searcy Snow Endowed Nursing ScholarshipTuscaloosa, AL$500112023
Community Soup BowlTuscaloosa, AL$484222023
American Red CrossBirmingham, AL$400442024
University of Alabama Theatre and DTuscaloosa, AL$400112022
Univ of Ala Society of Fine ArtsTuscaloosa, AL$350112021
N Audubon SocietyWashington, DC$300222022
Special OlympicsMontgomery, AL$275332024
Arbor DayLincoln, NE$250332024
Audubon SocietyNew York, NY$200112023
Southern Poverty Law CenterMontgomery, AL$200222022
Alabama HeritageTuscaloosa, AL$150222022
Tuscaloosa Track ClubTuscaloosa, AL$150112021
Alabama Public TelevisonBirmingham, AL$125112021
Bailey Tabernacle Cme ChurchTuscaloosa, AL$100112023
Food BankTuscaloosa, AL$100112024
Humane SocietyWashington, DC$100112021
National Park Conservation AssnWashington, DC$100222022
Sierra Club NationalSan Francisco, CA$100112024
Soup BowlTuscaloosa, AL$100112024
St Josephs Indian SchoolChamberlain, SD$100112022
University of Alabama School of MusTuscaloosa, AL$100112022
National Park FoundationWashington, DC$75112024
First United Methodist ChurchTuscaloosa, AL$50112023

23 of 40 (58%) 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 58%, 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 6 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
3 grants
Crime & Legal
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$8,125$200
202224$6,675$200
202320$7,384$200
202419$6,000$100

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. 89% of this one's giving went to organizations in Alabama. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Alabama
$25K
Virginia
$1K
Iowa
$575
District of Columbia
$575
Nebraska
$250
New York
$200
California
$100
South Dakota
$100

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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 Reese Phifer JR Memorial3 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc3 shared recipientsMcabee Family Foundation3 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipientsNetwork for Good2 shared recipientsThe Daniel Foundation of Alabama2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $200. 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 Alabama.
  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 Richard M Snow 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: 1617 Dearing Place, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401. 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 72-1371215 · 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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