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Rose Ladies Aid Society

Terre Haute, IN · EIN 35-0911948. Reported 89 grants totalling $257,415 to 33 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$257,415granted, 2021-2024
33recipients, as named on its returns
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,270,741assets, 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. Rose Ladies Aid Society 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 $3,600; the smallest was $100 and the largest $10,675. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
18 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
55 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
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
Manna From SevenTerre Haute, IN$37,000442024
14TH & Chestnut Community CenterTerre Haute, IN$31,500442024
Catholic CharitiesTerre Haute, IN$26,800442024
Council on Domestic Abuse IncTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Happiness BagTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Mental Health AmericaTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Vna & Hospice of the Wabash ValleyTerre Haute, IN$14,400442024
Salvation ArmyTerre Haute, IN$11,000442024
36 Needy HouseholdsTerre Haute, IN$10,675112023
St Patrick Catholic ChurchTerre Haute, IN$9,850442024
20 Needy HouseholdsTerre Haute, IN$8,018112024
Various Needy IndividualsTerre Haute, IN$7,555222022
Terre Haute Boys and Girls ClubTerre Haute, IN$7,500442024
Vigo County YMCATerre Haute, IN$7,000442024
Vigo County Education Foundation IncWest Terre Haute, IN$6,200222022
Camp NavigateTerre Haute, IN$6,000442024
St Joseph University ParishTerre Haute, IN$4,000332024
Vigo County Group HomesTerre Haute, IN$3,500332023
Noon Optimist Clothe-a-Child FundTerre Haute, IN$3,080442024
St Benedict ChurchTerre Haute, IN$3,000442024
Family Services AssociationTerre Haute, IN$2,500332023
Susie's PlaceTerre Haute, IN$2,000332024
Tribune Star Basket FundTerre Haute, IN$2,000222024
Tribune Star Christmas Basket FundTerre Haute, IN$2,000222022
Wabash Valley Habitat for HumanityTerre Haute, IN$2,000332024
Bethany HouseTerre Haute, IN$1,800112021
Lighthouse Mission IncTerre Haute, IN$1,500112021
Ryves Youth CenterTerre Haute, IN$1,500112021
Chances and Services for YouthTerre Haute, IN$1,000112024
Next Step Foundation IncTerre Haute, IN$500112024
Rio Grande Elementary SchoolTerre Haute, IN$137112023
Isu FoundationTerre Haute, IN$100112022
Swope Art MuseumTerre Haute, IN$100112023

23 of 33 (70%) 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 83%, across 3 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 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 33 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.

Human Services
16 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$65,970$2,000
202223$71,275$2,000
202323$61,532$1,000
202421$58,638$1,000

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

Terre Haute, IN
$251K
West Terre Haute, IN
$6K

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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.

Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsFrederick R Benson Trust8 shared recipientsClara Fairbanks Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsDuke Energy Foundation7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc5 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 Indiana.
  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 Rose Ladies Aid Society's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: 1925 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, IN, 47807. 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 35-0911948 · 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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