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Crescent Cities Charities Inc

Oxon Hill, MD · EIN 52-1815486. Reported 98 grants totalling $1,739,812 to 56 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,739,812granted, 2021-2024
56organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$8,763,667assets, 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. Crescent Cities Charities 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $8,300 and $12,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $667,787. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
27 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
69 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Grants and ContributionsOxon Hill, MD$667,787112024
Youth for Tomorrow New Life Center IncBristow, VA$71,000332023
The Jp Home IncWaldorf, MD$54,000332023
Scottish Rite Foundation of DCWashington, DC$51,000332023
Sprout Theraputic Riding & Education CenterAldie, VA$47,225332023
Mountain View Christian AcademyWinchester, VA$41,000332023
Belle Grove PlantationMiddletown, VA$40,500332023
St Judes Children's Research HospitalArlington, VA$38,000332023
Eod Warrior FoundationNiceville, FL$35,000332023
Philip's ProgramsAnnandale, VA$32,000332023
Shenandoah UniversityWinchester, VA$32,000222023
Hope Connections for Cancer SupportLandover, MD$31,400332023
Yellow Ribbon FundBethesda, MD$30,500332023
Men Supporting Women With CancerFrederick, MD$27,500222023
Prince George's County Christmas in AprilClinton, MD$27,000332023
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival IncWoodstock, VA$27,000332023
The Lincoln ThreatreMarion, VA$27,000222023
Miracle 4 Melanie IncSilver Spring, MD$25,800222023
Faith and Family FoundationPurcellville, VA$22,000222023
Project Healing Waters Fly FishingLa Plata, MD$21,000222023
Accokeek Foundation IncAccokeek, MD$20,000222022
Alice Ferguson FoundationAccokeek, MD$20,000222022
Blue Star Families of Nat Cap AreaEncinitas, CA$20,000222022
C & O Canal Trust IncWilliamsport, MD$20,000222022
Operation Second ChanceGermantown, MD$18,500222023
Dorchester County Sheriff's Office Shop With a CopCambridge, MD$17,500222023
Serve Our Willing WarriorsHaymarket, VA$17,000222022
Christian Life CenterRiverdale, MD$16,000222023
Maryland Crime Victim's Resource Center IncUpper Marlboro, MD$14,000222023
Great Escape Recovery LoungeWaldorf, MD$13,900222022
Cloverleaf Equine CenterClifton, VA$13,500112023
Cambridge Police DepartmentCambridge, MD$10,000112021
Defensores De La CuencaCheverly, MD$10,000112022
Dorchester Chamber FoundationCambridge, MD$10,000112021
Fight for Children IncWashington, DC$10,000112022
House of RuthWashington, DC$10,000112021
Michael R Walker Genesis Employee FoundationKennett Square, PA$10,000112021
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service FoundationAnnandale, VA$10,000112022
Prevention of Blindness Society of Metro WashWashington, DC$10,000112022
Rocks IncForestville, MD$10,000112021
Special Olympics MarylandBaltimore, MD$10,000112023
Gigi's Playhouse AnnapolisAnnapolis, MD$9,000112022
Congressional Community Action ProjectWinchester, VA$7,500112023
Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding ProgramClifton, VA$7,500112021
Touching CenterEdina, MN$7,500112023
Winchester Area Temporary Thermal ShelterWinchester, VA$7,500112023
Crohn's and Colitis FoundationNew York, NY$7,200112023
Joe's Movement EmporiumMt Rainer, MD$7,000112023
Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation IncMiddletown, VA$6,000112022
Days End Farm Horse Rescue IncWoodbine, MD$6,000112022
Hospice of the ChesapeakePasadena, MD$6,000112023
Inova Kellar FoundationEast Falls Church, VA$6,000112023
Juvenile Diabetes Research FoundationWashington, DC$6,000112022
Prince George's Child Resource CenterUpper Marlboro, MD$6,000112023
Winchester Medical Center FoundationWinchester, VA$6,000112023
Harmonic Music FoundationWashington, DC$5,500112023

29 of 56 (52%) 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 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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.

Plus 1 grants to individuals totalling $218,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202125$265,800$10,000
202237$422,025$10,000
202335$384,200$10,000
20241$667,787$667,787

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. 64% of this one's giving went to organizations in Maryland. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Maryland
$1.1M
Virginia
$459K
District of Columbia
$92K
Florida
$35K
California
$20K
Pennsylvania
$10K
Minnesota
$8K
New York
$7K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund28 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc23 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc21 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust18 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc12 shared recipientsGreater Washington Community Foundation12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. 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 Maryland.
  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 Crescent Cities Charities Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 6907 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD, 20745. 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 52-1815486 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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