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Turner Bismarck H Tuw

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 91-6254764. Reported 51 grants totalling $75,683 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,250median grant
$75,683granted, 2021-2024
28organizations funded
46%of grantees funded again the next year
$390,190assets, 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. Turner Bismarck H Tuw 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 $1,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $975 and $1,500; the smallest was $530 and the largest $5,850. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
14 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
36 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant

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
Washington State UniversityPullman, WA$12,725442024
University of IdahoMoscow, ID$11,179442024
Boise State UniversityBoise, ID$5,518442024
North Idaho CollegeCoeur Dalene, ID$4,805222022
University of MontanaMissoula, MT$3,925332024
Eastern Washington UniversityCheney, WA$3,625222023
New Saints Andrew CollegeMoscow, ID$3,250332023
Western Washington UniversityBellingham, WA$3,125222022
Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix, AZ$3,000222024
Williamette UniversitySalem, OR$2,675222023
Lewis-Clark State CollegeLewiston, ID$2,431222024
Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchester, NH$2,113222023
Spokane Falls CommunitycollegeSpokane, WA$2,113222023
Montana State UniversityBozeman, MT$1,965222024
The College of IdahoCaldwell, ID$1,864222024
Clemson UniversityClemson, SC$1,250112024
Whitworth UniversitySpokane, WA$1,250112021
Carroll CollegeHelena, MT$1,000112021
Montana Technological UniversityButte, MT$1,000112022
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$1,000112023
University of Wisconsin-SuperiorSuperior, WI$1,000112021
University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$975112023
Hamilton CollegeLinton, NY$875112022
College of Southern IdahoTwin Falls, ID$715112021
George Fox UniversityNewberg, OR$715112021
Pacific Lutheran UniversityTacoma, WA$530112023
Portland State UniversityPortland, OR$530112023
Walla Walla Community CollegeWalla Walla, WA$530112023

15 of 28 (54%) 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 46%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 27 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
22 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Employment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$18,005$1,250
202214$20,502$1,281
202315$22,425$1,000
20249$14,751$1,250

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. 39% of this one's giving went to organizations in Idaho. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Idaho
$30K
Washington
$25K
Montana
$8K
Oregon
$4K
Arizona
$3K
New Hampshire
$2K
South Carolina
$1K
Wisconsin
$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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsM J Murdock Charitable Trust9 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,250. 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 Idaho.
  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 Turner Bismarck H Tuw'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 0634, Milwaukee, WI, 53201. 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 91-6254764 · 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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