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Alice E Turner Memorial Trust

Saginaw, MI · EIN 38-6501366. Reported 46 grants totalling $109,700 to 32 recipients across tax years 2023-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$109,700granted, 2023-2025
32recipients, as named on its returns
47%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,244,638assets, 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. Alice E Turner Memorial Trust 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 $2,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
4 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
34 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Emmaus HouseSaginaw, MI$15,500332025
Hunger Solution - Hidden HarvestSaginaw, MI$10,000112024
Saginaw Community FoundationSaginaw, MI$7,500332025
Well of SaginawSaginaw, MI$6,000222025
Pit and Balcony IncSaginaw, MI$5,800112023
Central Michigan UniversityMt Pleasant, MI$5,000112023
Saginaw CovenantSaginaw, MI$5,000112024
United Way of SaginawSaginaw, MI$5,000332025
Can CouncilSaginaw, MI$4,030222025
Big Brothers Big SisterSaginaw, MI$4,000222024
Boys Scouts of AmericaAuburn, MI$4,000222024
Boys & Girls Club GlbrBay City, MI$4,000112025
Underground Railroad IncSaginaw, MI$3,600112024
1 Week 1 StreetSaginaw, MI$3,500222025
Saginaw Habitat for HumanitySaginaw, MI$3,500222024
ReadSaginaw, MI$2,250112025
Hospitality HouseSaginaw, MI$2,000112025
Parishioners on PatrolSaginaw, MI$2,000222025
Partnership CenterSaginaw, MI$2,000112024
Saginaw Arts & Science AcademySaginaw, MI$2,000222024
Saginaw Arts & Sciences AcademySaginaw, MI$2,000112025
Saginaw Promise Zone AuthoritySaginaw, MI$2,000112025
Mi Forensic ExaminerSaginaw, MI$1,520112025
Center for MinoritySaginaw, MI$1,000112024
Girl Scouts Heart of MichiganSaginaw, MI$1,000112025
New BirthSaginaw, MI$1,000112025
PrideSaginaw, MI$1,000112024
Saginaw FutureSaginaw, MI$1,000112024
Saginaw Spirit FoundationSaginaw, MI$1,000112024
Brunkow SchoolSaginaw, MI$500112024
Old Town Soup KitchenSaginaw, MI$500112024
United Together Lupus FoundationSaginaw, MI$500112023

11 of 32 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 47%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

Plus 37 grants to individuals totalling $110,113 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 16 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Housing & Shelter
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Education
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202311$33,800$2,500
202420$41,600$1,000
202515$34,300$2,000

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

Saginaw, MI
$97K
Mt Pleasant, MI
$5K
Auburn, MI
$4K
Bay City, MI
$4K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Allen E & Marie a Nickless11 shared recipientsSaginaw Community Foundation10 shared recipientsWickson-Link Memorial Foundation9 shared recipientsWm Mcnally Family Foundation8 shared recipientsConsumers Energy Foundation6 shared recipientsWallace & Irene Bronner Family5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Michigan.
  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 Alice E Turner Memorial Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: One Tuscola Street, Saginaw, MI, 48607. 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 38-6501366 · 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.

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