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Felker Family Foundation Inc

High Shoals, GA · EIN 58-2653640. Reported 106 grants totalling $668,450 to 47 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$668,450granted, 2021-2025
47recipients, as named on its returns
63%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,798,777assets, 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. Felker Family 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
8 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
31 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
36 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
27 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

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
Uga FoundationAthens, GA$100,000222025
Mcdaniel Tichenor HouseMonroe, GA$65,000552025
Athens College of MinistryAthens, GA$40,000442024
Summit Middle SchoolBoulder, CO$35,000552025
Grace Commons ChurchBoulder, CO$30,000332025
Robson Academy - SheridanSheridan, WY$30,000332023
Shephard Center FoundationAtlanta, GA$30,000332023
Big Horn Equestrian CenterSheridan, WY$25,000552025
United Way of Aiken CountyAiken, SC$25,000332023
Virginia Episcopal SchoolLynchburg, VA$25,000112021
Butterfly Dreams FarmWatkinsville, GA$22,500442025
Bogus Basin Recreation AssocBoise, ID$20,000442025
Food Bank of Ne GeogiaAthens, GA$20,000442025
Grace CommonsBoulder, CO$20,000222022
Walton County Boys & Girls ClubMadison, GA$13,000442025
The Brinton MuseumBig Horn, WY$12,000222025
Valor AcademySheridan, WY$11,000112025
Idaho Diaper BankMeridian, ID$10,000222024
Monroe MuseumMonroe, GA$10,000222025
Woman's & Children's AllianceBoise, ID$10,000112025
AthenspetsAthens, GA$7,500222025
Idaho Humane SocietyBoise, ID$7,500222023
Madison Oglethorpe Animal ShelterDanielsville, GA$7,500332025
Omega Horse Rescue & RehabAirville, PA$7,500112021
Georgia Coastal Historical SocietySt Simons Island, GA$7,000222024
Greater Boulder Youth OrchestraBoulder, CO$7,000332023
Sheridan Public Arts CommitteeSheridan, WY$6,000222024
The Salvation Army AthensAthens, GA$5,100222025
Fairview Parent OrganizationBoulder, CO$5,000112024
Ga Equine Rescue LeagueBethlehem, GA$5,000112022
Horse Rescue Relief and Retirment FundCumming, GA$5,000112025
Madison County Habitat for HumanityAthens, GA$5,000112025
Meningioma MommasHighlands Ranch, CO$5,000112025
The Humane Society of the USWashington, DC$5,000112024
Second Harvest of South GeorgiaValdosta, GA$4,000222025
Sheridan Community Land TrustSheridan, WY$4,000332024
Special Olympics GeorgiaValdosta, GA$4,000222025
Flatirons Elementary PTOBoulder, CO$3,500112021
Both Hands FoundationBrentwood, TN$3,000332025
Denver InstituteDenver, CO$3,000112022
Coastal Georgia Historical SocietySt Simons Island, GA$2,500112025
Fairview Orchestra Booster ClubBoulder, CO$2,000222025
Vore Buffalo Jump FoundationSundance, WY$1,500222024
Comer Baptist ChurchComer, GA$1,250222025
Friends of Oglethorpe County LibraryLexington, GA$500112023
National Fire Safety CouncilMichigan Center, MI$500222025
Ga Walk for Breast CancerAtlanta, GA$100112022

32 of 47 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 63%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

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 50 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.

Education
11 grants
Arts & Culture
10 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Animal Welfare
6 grants
Environment
5 grants
Religion
4 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$143,500$5,000
202218$101,600$5,000
202321$116,000$5,000
202422$130,750$4,500
202526$176,600$5,000

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

53% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Georgia
$355K
Colorado
$110K
Wyoming
$90K
Idaho
$48K
South Carolina
$25K
Virginia
$25K
Pennsylvania
$8K
District of Columbia
$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 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation7 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. 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 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Felker Family Foundation Inc'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: Po Box 202, High Shoals, GA, 30645. 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 58-2653640 · 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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