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David & Margery Inkeles Charitable

Gaithersburg, MD · EIN 22-3505137. Reported 123 grants totalling $2,395,367 to 34 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,400median grant
$2,395,367granted, 2021-2025
34recipients, as named on its returns
95%of grantees funded again the next year
$17.9Massets, 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. David & Margery Inkeles Charitable 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 $2,400. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $4,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $655,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
89 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 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
Community Foundation of New JerseyMorristown, NJ$1,795,081442025
Project Self SufficiencyWashington, DC$210,000552025
Blair AcademyBlairstown, NJ$124,000552025
Scarc FoundationAugusta, NJ$24,000442025
Peter Valley SchoolLayton, NJ$16,000442025
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$14,750442025
Ogala Lakota CollegeKyle, SD$14,400552025
Newton Medical Center FoundationNewton, NJ$14,002552025
Sparta Ambulance SquadSparta, NJ$13,000552025
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$12,542552025
Samaritan InnNewton, NJ$12,000442025
Sparta Volunteer Fire DeptSparta, NJ$12,000442025
Foundation for Morristown Medical CenterMorristown, NJ$11,000332025
Albert Einstein CollegeBronx, NY$10,000552025
Karen Ann Quinlan HospiceNew Ton, NJ$10,000552025
Mt Pleasant Animal ShelterEast Hanover, NJ$9,001552025
Alzheimer's Foundation of AmericaNew York, NY$9,000552025
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GA$9,000442025
Literacy VolunteersMorristown, NJ$9,000552025
Paralyzed Veterans of AmericaWashington, DC$9,000442025
United WayPaterson, NJ$9,000442025
Susan G Komen CancerParsippany, NJ$8,750442025
St Jude Childrens HospitalNew York, NY$8,003442025
Planned ParenthoodWashington, DC$8,000442025
Jewish Federation of Greater MetrowestWhippany, NJ$7,500332025
Sparta PalSparta Township, NJ$6,100442025
Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWhippany, NJ$3,501222022
Moristown Memorial Hospital FoundationMorristown, NJ$2,500222022
Wounded Warrior ProjectJacksonville, FL$1,004112021
Grace Baptist ChurchRamsey, NJ$1,000112021
Yale Club NyNew York, NY$800112021
Mount LebanonQueens, NY$733112021
St Joseph Indian SchoolChamberlain, SD$500112021
St Labre Indian SchoolAshland, MT$200112021

28 of 34 (82%) 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 95%, across 4 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 44 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.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
7 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Diseases & Disorders
5 grants
Education
5 grants
Animal Welfare
5 grants
Medical Research
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$45,786$1,002
202219$402,413$1,000
202326$606,500$1,000
202426$800,000$3,000
202526$540,668$3,000

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

87% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New Jersey
$2.1M
District of Columbia
$227K
New York
$43K
South Dakota
$15K
Connecticut
$13K
Georgia
$9K
Florida
$1K
Montana
$200

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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 Fund11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsChubb Charitable Foundation10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,400. 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 Jersey.
  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 David & Margery Inkeles Charitable'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: 17721 Calabar Drive, Gaithersburg, MD, 20877. 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 22-3505137 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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