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Broomfield Charitable Foundation

Rockville, MD · EIN 38-3083449. Reported 73 grants totalling $174,000 to 49 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$174,000granted, 2020-2023
49organizations funded
39%of grantees funded again the next year
$922,450assets, 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. Broomfield Charitable Foundation 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,500; the smallest was $400 and the largest $15,000. 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
56 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Rochester Hills MuseumRochester, MI$45,000442023
Several CharitiesOcean Pines, MD$12,900442023
Georgetown Prep SchoolRockville, MD$9,000332023
Open Hands Food PantryRoyal Oak, MI$9,000332022
Royal Oak High SchoolRoyal Oak, MI$7,500332023
St Jude Reg Catholic ScRockville, MD$6,500112022
Ncss Scholarship ProgrmWashington, DC$5,700112022
Buffalo SeminaryBuffalo, NY$5,000112021
O MuseumWashington, DC$5,000332023
Royal Oak Historical SoRoyal Oak, MI$5,000112020
San Miguel SchoolWashington, DC$4,500332023
Calvin B Taylor Hous MuBerlin, MD$3,500112022
Colgate UniversityHamilton, NY$3,500222022
Lon Solomon MinistriesFalls Church, VA$3,000332023
St Jude Regnl Cathl SchRockville, MD$3,000112023
Quilters By the SeaBerlin, MD$2,850112023
Atlantic Gen Hosp FndtnBerlin, MD$2,500112023
Calvin Taylor House MusBerlin, MD$2,500112021
Royal Oak HighschoolRoyal Oak, MI$2,500112022
Royal Oak Historical ScRoyal Oak, MI$2,500112022
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$2,500332023
Hillsdale CollegeHillsdale, MI$2,000112021
Howard County Action CoColumbia, MD$2,000112021
Judicial WatchWashington, DC$2,000222021
Kappa Kappa Gamma FndtnDanville, OH$2,000222023
Antioch DCWashington, DC$1,500222023
King Barn Diary MuseumBoyds, MD$1,500112021
Tunnel to Towers FntdnStaten Island, NY$1,500112020
Animal HavenNew York, NY$1,000112021
Center for Amer LibrtyPittsburgh, PA$1,000112021
Congressional Club MuseWashington, DC$1,000112021
Doc Emet ProductionsKnoxville, TN$1,000112021
Greensburg Schools FndnGreensburg, IN$1,000112023
Independent Womans FormWinchester, VA$1,000112022
Kkg FoundationDublin, OH$1,000112020
Leader Dogs for BlindRochester, MI$1,000112020
Leadership InstituteArlington, VA$1,000112022
Lfgc Blue Star MemorialSaint Louis, MO$1,000112022
National Conf Stat SocWashington, DC$1,000112023
Ncss Scholarship PrgrmWashington, DC$1,000112021
NdcmeColeharbor, ND$1,000112022
O Street MuseumWashington, DC$1,000112020
True Blue SapphiresWatford City, ND$1,000112023
Ncss FoundationWashington, DC$600112023
Ncss Scholarship FundWashington, DC$550112020
Davids Tent USAWashington, DC$500112023
PancanEl Segundo, CA$500112023
Vanderpump Dog FndtnLos Angeles, CA$500112020
Millville De VfcMillville, DE$400112023

13 of 49 (27%) 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 39%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
6 grants
Education
6 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
3 grants
International Affairs
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202013$37,250$1,000
202122$49,750$1,250
202218$48,400$2,000
202320$38,600$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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 43% of this one's giving went to organizations in Michigan. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Michigan
$74K
Maryland
$46K
District of Columbia
$24K
New York
$11K
Virginia
$5K
Ohio
$3K
North Carolina
$2K
North Dakota
$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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Michigan.
  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 Broomfield Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 6012 Loganwood Drive, Rockville, MD, 20852. 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 38-3083449 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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