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Torras Foundation Inc

Brunswick, GA · EIN 20-4004024. Reported 89 grants totalling $178,250 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$178,250granted, 2021-2024
38organizations funded
68%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,015,424assets, 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. Torras 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $16,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
76 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 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
The College of Coastal Ga FoundationBrunswick, GA$41,000442024
Forward Brunswick IncBrunswick, GA$23,000442024
Keep Golden Isles BeautifulBrunswick, GA$11,000442024
Safe Harbor Children's CenterBrunswick, GA$9,000442024
Glynn County Volunteer Firefighters IncSt Simons Island, GA$7,000332023
St Simons Land TrustSaint Simons Island, GA$7,000442024
Signature Squares of BrunswickBrunswick, GA$6,000332023
Golden Isles YMCA FoundationBrunswick, GA$5,500442024
America's Second Harvest of Coastal GaBrunswick, GA$5,000442024
The Gathering PlaceBrunswick, GA$5,000112021
Coastal Symphony of GeorgiaSt Simons Island, GA$4,000442024
First Presbyterian ChurchBrunswick, GA$4,000442024
Humane Society of South Coastal GeorgiaBrunswick, GA$4,000442024
Oak Grove Cemetary SocietyBrunswick, GA$4,000442024
Union Missionary BaptistTownsend, GA$4,000332023
Brunswick RocksSaint Simons Island, GA$3,000222023
Hospice of the Golden IslesBrunswick, GA$3,000332024
Madison Oglethorpe Animal ShelterDanielsville, GA$3,000332024
Must MinistriesMarietta, GA$3,000332023
The Extension IncMarietta, GA$3,000332023
Golden Isles Arts & HumanitiesBrunswick, GA$2,000112021
Golden Isles Fund for TreesSaint Simons Island, GA$2,000112021
International Seafarers' CenterBrunswick, GA$2,000222023
Kids Port MuseumSt Simons Island, GA$2,000112021
Manna HouseBrunswick, GA$2,000112021
Wesley Academy of Early LearningSt Simons Island, GA$2,000112021
West Cobb Girls SoftballPowder Springs, GA$1,500222024
Brunswick DdaBrunswick, GA$1,250112022
Brunswick (ga) Chapter of the LinksBrunswick, GA$1,000112022
Coastal Georgia Honor Flight IncSt Simons Island, GA$1,000222024
Foster Love Ministries IncBrunswick, GA$1,000112021
Georgia Tech Foundation IncAtlanta, GA$1,000112022
Golden Isles Community Saliling CenterSt Simons Island, GA$1,000112021
No Kill Glynn County IncSt Simons Island, GA$1,000112021
Operation Bed SpreadSaint Simons Island, GA$1,000112021
Rebuilding Together of Glynn County Georgia IncBrunswick, GA$1,000112024
Glynn Visual ArtsSaint Simons Island, GA$500112024
Golden Isles LiveSaint Simons Island, GA$500112024

22 of 38 (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 68%, 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 50 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
Environment
9 grants
Animal Welfare
8 grants
Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202128$51,000$1,250
202221$49,750$1,000
202322$51,000$1,000
202418$26,500$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

Brunswick, GA
$131K
St Simons Island, GA
$18K
Saint Simons Island, GA
$14K
Marietta, GA
$6K
Townsend, GA
$4K
Danielsville, GA
$3K
Powder Springs, GA
$2K
Atlanta, GA
$1K

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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.

Communities of Coastal Georgia13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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 Georgia.
  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 Torras 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: 777 Gloucester Street Suite 102, Brunswick, GA, 31520. 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 20-4004024 · 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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