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The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation

Wilmington, DE · EIN 75-2861029. Reported 56 grants totalling $1,356,240 to 27 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$7,408median grant
$1,356,240granted, 2021-2024
27organizations funded
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$9,414,124assets, 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. The Andrea-Mennen 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 $7,408. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $225 and the largest $300,000. 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
9 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$100,000 and Up
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
Collin County Community College District FoundatioMckinney, TX$727,799442024
Plano Symphony Orchestra Non-Profit CorpPlano, TX$126,600842024
National Philanthropic TrustJenkintown, PA$110,000112021
Chamberlain BalletPlano, TX$106,000542024
Doctors CareLittleton, CO$42,500442024
Boys & Girls Club of Collin CountyAllen, TX$37,500742024
Young Americans Center for Financial EducationDenver, CO$30,000112021
Dallas Zoological SocietyDallas, TX$25,000222024
Documentary Educational Resources IncWatertown, MA$25,000222023
Childrens Medical Center FoundationDallas, TX$20,000222024
Health Services of North Texas IncDenton, TX$17,316222023
Mane GaitProsper, TX$15,000212021
Backstage Theatre IncBreckenridge, CO$10,000222024
City House IncPlano, TX$10,000112021
Dallas Arboretum & BotanicalDallas, TX$7,000112021
Park City Community FoundationPark City, UT$6,300112021
First Congregational Church of ChesterChester, NJ$5,000112021
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$5,000112024
The Storehouse of Collin CountyPlano, TX$5,000112021
The Teamconnor Childhood Cancer FoundationDallas, TX$5,000112021
Womens Auxiliary to the Childrens Medical CenterDallas, TX$5,000112022
Youth Believing in Change IncDallas, TX$5,000112021
Hugs Cafe IncMckinney, TX$3,500112024
Child Protective Services Community Partners IncDallas, TX$3,000112021
B & M Boxing GymMckinney, TX$2,500112024
Deborah Hospital FoundationBrowns Mills, NJ$1,000112021
Botanical Research Institute of Texas IncFort Worth, TX$225112023

10 of 27 (37%) 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 70%, 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 40 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
12 grants
Health Care
8 grants
Education
5 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Science & Technology
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$318,599$6,650
20227$380,000$10,000
202313$331,591$7,316
202414$326,050$8,025

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. 83% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$1.1M
Pennsylvania
$110K
Colorado
$82K
Massachusetts
$25K
Utah
$6K
New Jersey
$6K
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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,408. 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 Texas.
  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 The Andrea-Mennen 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: Foundation Source 501 Silverside Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19809. 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 75-2861029 · 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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