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Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Main

Cincinnati, OH · EIN 36-7155124. Reported 97 grants totalling $375,150 to 36 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$375,150granted, 2021-2025
36recipients, as named on its returns
79%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,715,825assets, 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. Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Main 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $800 and the largest $20,000. 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
65 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
25 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 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
University of Illinois FoundationUrbana, IL$51,900442025
Animals Deserving of Proper TreatmentNaperville, IL$30,000332024
Partners for Pets Humane SocietyTroy, IL$21,500442025
Greyhound Alliance NfpRiver Forest, IL$21,000552025
Canine Therapy Corps IncChicago, IL$19,000552025
Tree House Humane SocietyChicago, IL$18,500442025
Humane Society of Southern IllinoisCarbondale, IL$15,000332025
Catnap From the Heart IncLa Grange Pk, IL$14,300552025
Animal Care LeagueOak Park, IL$13,000332024
Peoria Humane SocietyPeoria, IL$13,000552025
Tails Humane SocietyDekalb, IL$13,000442025
Joliet Junior College FoundationJoliet, IL$12,500552025
Anderson Animal ShelterSouth Elgin, IL$12,000332023
Brave Hearts Therapeutic Riding & Educational CenterHarvard, IL$12,000552025
Got Your Six Support DogsMaryville, IL$12,000332023
Humane Society of Southern Illinoisspca IncCarbondale, IL$12,000222022
Sit Stay Read IncChicago, IL$11,000442025
Oaken Acres Wildlife Refuge and Rehabilitation CenterSycamore, IL$7,650442024
Touched By An AnimalChicago, IL$7,500552025
City of Aurora IllinoisAurora, IL$7,000112021
Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics IncLisle, IL$7,000222025
Almost Home FoundationElk Grove Vlg, IL$6,000222025
Brunos Pro Bone O Pet PantryBartlett, IL$5,000112022
Heartland Animal ShelterWheeling, IL$5,000112025
One Tail at a TimeChicago, IL$5,000112024
Naperville Area Humane Society IncNaperville, IL$4,000222023
National Animal Welfare Society IncMokena, IL$4,000222025
South Suburban Humane SocietyMatteson, IL$4,000112024
Evanston Animal Shelter AssnEvanston, IL$3,000112024
Rescued RascalsMontgomery, IL$2,000112024
Pilots to the RescueBrooklyn, NY$1,500112025
High Tails Animal Rescue NfpGlenview, IL$1,000112025
Illinois Animal WelfareEvanston, IL$1,000112025
Illinois Federation of Humane SocietyChicago, IL$1,000112024
Quincy Humane SocietyQuincy, IL$1,000112023
Paws and Claws Rescue IncEvanston, IL$800112024

23 of 36 (64%) 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 79%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 74 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.

Animal Welfare
59 grants
Education
7 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Human Services
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$85,150$5,000
202219$76,000$3,000
202321$62,000$2,000
202423$72,000$3,000
202520$80,000$3,250

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

100% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Illinois
$374K
New York
$2K

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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.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc19 shared recipientsPaypal Charitable Giving Fund18 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 Illinois.
  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 Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Main'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 630858, Cincinnati, OH, 45263. 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 36-7155124 · 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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