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Rose Ladies Aid Society

Terre Haute, IN · EIN 35-0911948. Reported 89 grants totalling $257,415 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$257,415granted, 2021-2024
33organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,270,741assets, 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. Rose Ladies Aid Society 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 $3,600; the smallest was $100 and the largest $10,675. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
18 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
55 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
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
Manna From SevenTerre Haute, IN$37,000442024
14TH & Chestnut Community CenterTerre Haute, IN$31,500442024
Catholic CharitiesTerre Haute, IN$26,800442024
Council on Domestic Abuse IncTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Happiness BagTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Mental Health AmericaTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Vna & Hospice of the Wabash ValleyTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Salvation ArmyTerre Haute, IN$11,000442024
36 Needy HouseholdsTerre Haute, IN$10,675112023
St Patrick Catholic ChurchTerre Haute, IN$9,850442024
20 Needy HouseholdsTerre Haute, IN$8,018112024
Various Needy IndividualsTerre Haute, IN$7,555222022
Terre Haute Boys and Girls ClubTerre Haute, IN$7,500442024
Vigo County YMCATerre Haute, IN$7,000442024
Vigo County Education Foundation IncWest Terre Haute, IN$6,200222022
Camp NavigateTerre Haute, IN$6,000442024
St Joseph University ParishTerre Haute, IN$4,000332024
Vigo County Group HomesTerre Haute, IN$3,500332023
Noon Optimist Clothe-a-Child FundTerre Haute, IN$3,080442024
St Benedict ChurchTerre Haute, IN$3,000442024
Family Services AssociationTerre Haute, IN$2,500332023
Susie's PlaceTerre Haute, IN$2,000332024
Tribune Star Basket FundTerre Haute, IN$2,000222024
Tribune Star Christmas Basket FundTerre Haute, IN$2,000222022
Wabash Valley Habitat for HumanityTerre Haute, IN$2,000332024
Bethany HouseTerre Haute, IN$1,800112021
Lighthouse Mission IncTerre Haute, IN$1,500112021
Ryves Youth CenterTerre Haute, IN$1,500112021
Chances and Services for YouthTerre Haute, IN$1,000112024
Next Step Foundation IncTerre Haute, IN$500112024
Rio Grande Elementary SchoolTerre Haute, IN$137112023
Isu FoundationTerre Haute, IN$100112022
Swope Art MuseumTerre Haute, IN$100112023

23 of 33 (70%) 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 83%, 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 33 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
16 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$65,970$2,000
202223$71,275$2,000
202323$61,532$1,000
202421$58,638$1,000

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

Terre Haute, IN
$251K
West Terre Haute, IN
$6K

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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.

Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsFrederick R Benson Trust8 shared recipientsClara Fairbanks Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsDuke Energy Foundation7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc5 shared recipients

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 Indiana.
  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 Rose Ladies Aid Society'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: 1925 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, IN, 47807. 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 35-0911948 · 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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