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Federation of Protestant Welfare

New York, NY · EIN 13-5562220. Reported 72 grants totalling $4,455,667 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

40organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$4,455,667granted, 2021-2023
37%of grantees funded again the next year
59%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Federation of Protestant Welfare, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T700).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 59% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 37% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $2,636,331. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
46 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Amare Public AffairsTampa, FL$2,636,331112022
National Urban League IncNew York, NY$425,000422022
National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleBaltimore, MD$324,115522022
Nan Newark Tech WorldNewark, NJ$300,000112022
Uw Invoice ReceivablesSeattle, WA$50,221112023
Central Family Life CenterStaten Island, NY$42,500322022
67TH Precinct Clergy Council IncBrooklyn, NY$30,000222022
Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association IncBronx, NY$30,000222022
Chinese American Planning Council IncNew York, NY$30,000332023
Clarendon Road Church of the Christian and Missionary AllianceBrooklyn, NY$30,000222022
Life ChurchBrooklyn, NY$30,000222022
New York Disaster Interfaith Services IncNew York, NY$30,000222022
Trinity United Methodist ChurchWhite Plains, NY$30,000222022
United Community Centers IncBrooklyn, NY$30,000332023
African Life CenterBronx, NY$22,500222022
Bronx Christian FellowshipBronx, NY$22,500222022
Bronxworks IncBronx, NY$22,500222022
Clay Avenue Tenants Association IncBronx, NY$22,500222022
Every Day Is a Miracle IncBronx, NY$22,500212022
Faith in New York IncCorona, NY$22,500222022
Hope Center Development CorporationBrooklyn, NY$22,500222022
Majlis Ash-Shura of Metropolitan New York IncJamaica, NY$22,500222022
Mount Moriah AME ChurchCambria Hts, NY$22,500222022
Relume Foundation IncFar Rockaway, NY$22,500222022
Riverside Church in the City of New YorkNew York, NY$22,500222022
The Fortune Society IncLong Island City, NY$22,500222022
Word of Life International IncBronx, NY$22,500222022
First Baptist Church of CrownBrooklyn, NY$20,000112021
Global Trauma ResearchBrooklyn, NY$15,000112021
AIDS Service Center of Lower Manhattan IncNew York, NY$10,000112023
Amity Baptist ChurchJamaica, NY$10,000112021
Ashshifaa Inc Al Masjidu AdamBronx, NY$10,000112021
Beulah Sda ChurchBrooklyn, NY$10,000112021
Calvary Fellowship AME ChurchBrooklyn, NY$10,000112021
Community Initiative of NcNew York, NY$10,000112021
Elite Learners IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000112021
Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement IncNew York, NY$10,000112021
Mother AME Zion ChurchNew York, NY$10,000112021
Mt Olivet Baptist Church of HollisSaint Albans, NY$10,000112021
Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services IncNew York, NY$10,000112021

23 of 40 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 24 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 25 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
10 orgs
Religion
6 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Education
1 org
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202135$630,000$15,000
202233$3,745,446$10,000
20234$80,221$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

59% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Florida
$2.6M
New York
$1.1M
Maryland
$324K
New Jersey
$300K
Washington
$50K

Down to the city

Tampa, FL
$2.6M
New York, NY
$558K
Baltimore, MD
$324K
Newark, NJ
$300K
Brooklyn, NY
$208K
Bronx, NY
$175K

Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one

4 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 12 grants totalling $75,000 to Federation of Protestant Welfare. That is 22% of the 18 funders we can see giving to it. Those 4 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.

3 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.

FoundationStateReportedGrantsYearsLast
The Debs FoundationNew Jersey$45,000332023
Morgan Stanley Foundation IncNew York$15,000332024
Schwartz Family FoundationNew York$12,500112021
Uja Et Al Tr Uw H Spenadel XXXXX5008Illinois$2,500552025

A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.

Every foundation in the table above files Form 990-PF, which reports every grant it made and asks outright whether it funds only organizations it picks. That answer is what puts it on this list; no other form asks the question. The grants this organization reports making are on Form 990 Schedule I, which only requires listing recipients paid more than $5,000. Two different populations, so the money in and the money out on this page are not two halves of one figure and must not be added or compared.

Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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.

United Way of New York City15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsFood Bank for New York City8 shared recipientsRobin Hood Foundation7 shared recipientsBrooklyn Community Foundation7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Federation of Protestant Welfare's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 40 Broad Street, New York, NY, 10004.

EIN 13-5562220 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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