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Olberg Mcfall Family Foundation Inc

New York, NY · EIN 32-0451490. Reported 49 grants totalling $53,166 to 25 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$53,166granted, 2021-2025
25recipients, as named on its returns
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$240,414assets, 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. Olberg Mcfall 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $8,333. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
34 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
13 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
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
St Michael Church St Michael ChurchNew York City, NY$21,666552025
Bellevue Literary Review Bellevue Literary ReviewNew York City, NY$4,500552025
The Corporation of Yaddo the Corporation of YaddoNew York City, NY$4,000222024
Wild Bird Fund Wild Bird FundNew York City, NY$3,500442025
Yaddo YaddoSaratoga Springs, NY$3,500112021
Lewisboro Land Trust Lewisboro Land TrustSouth Salem, NY$1,500332025
Macdowell Colony Macdowell ColonyPeterborough, NH$1,500332025
Bedford Audubon Society Bedford Audubon SocietyKatonah, NY$1,000112021
Community Center Northern Westchest Community Center Northern WestchesterKatonah, NY$1,000222025
Cornell University Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$1,000222025
New York Common Pantry New York Common PantryNew York City, NY$1,000222025
New York Haiti Project New York Haiti ProjectBronx, NY$1,000222025
Riverside Park Conservancy Riverside Park ConservancyNew York, NY$1,000112021
School Year Abroad School Year AbroadNorh Andover, MA$1,000222024
Virginia Center for Creative Arts Virginia Center for Creative ArtsAmherst, VA$1,000222024
Katonah Museum of Art Katonah Museum of ArtKatonah, NY$750222025
Katonah Public Library Katonah Public LibraryKatonah, NY$750222025
Boys & Girls Club Northern Westches Boys & Girls Club North WestchesterMt Kisco, NY$500112024
Central Park Conservancy Central Park ConservancyNew York City, NY$500112021
Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Pegasus Therapeutic RidingBrewster, NY$500112024
Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter AcademyExeter, NH$500112025
Puppies Behind Bars Puppies Behind BarsNew York City, NY$500112024
Volunteers of Legal Services Volunteers of Legal ServicesNew York City, NY$500112024
Friends of Straus Park Friends of Straus ParkNew York City, NY$250112025
Immune Deficiency Foundation Immune Deficiency FoundationHanover, MD$250112024

14 of 25 (56%) 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 62%, 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 28 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.

Arts & Culture
5 grants
Environment
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$11,000$1,000
20223$9,333$500
20233$10,833$2,000
202419$11,000$500
202513$11,000$500

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

92% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$49K
New Hampshire
$2K
Virginia
$1K
Massachusetts
$1K
Maryland
$250

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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 Fund15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. 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 New York.
  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 Olberg Mcfall 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: 924 West End Ave Apt 101, New York, NY, 10025. 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 32-0451490 · 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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