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Eastern Shore Charitable Foundation Inc

Easton, MD · EIN 30-0282099. Reported 79 grants totalling $4,948 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50median grant
$4,948granted, 2021-2024
41organizations funded
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,494assets, 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. Eastern Shore Charitable Foundation 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 $50. Half of everything it gave fell between $25 and $75; the smallest was $20 and the largest $219. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
79 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
George Washington's Mount VernonMt Vernon, VA$438222023
Doctors Without BordersHagerstown, MD$350222024
Mercy CorpsPrescott, AZ$250442024
Prostate Cancer FoundationAlbert Lea, MN$250442024
American Cancer SocietySalisbury, MD$225332024
Easton Rotary Youth & Community FundEaston, MD$200222024
Moldova World Childrens' Fund IncHendersonville, NC$200112022
Als AssociationPueblo, CO$175442024
Alzheimers AssociationTimonium, MD$175222024
American Diabetes AssociationAlexandria, VA$175332024
Mercy ShipsGarden Valley, TX$175222024
American Heart AssocPhoenix, AZ$150112024
Arthritis FundAtlanta, GA$150112024
American Lung AssociationAlbert Lea, MN$125332024
Macular Degeneration ResearchClarksburg, MD$125332023
National Glaucoma ResearchClarksburg, MD$125222024
The Glaucoma FoundationNew York, NY$125332023
USOWashington, DC$125222024
American Kidney FundLewiston, ME$100332024
Arthritis FoundationAtlanta, GA$100222023
Crohns & Colitis FoundationAlbert Lea, MN$100332024
Episcopal ReliefHarlan, IA$100112024
National Parkinson FoundationHagerstown, MD$100222024
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at John HopkinsBaltimore, MD$100112022
American Battlefield TrustMerrifield, VA$75222022
American Red CrossBaltimore, MD$75112024
Friends of HospiceEaston, MD$75112021
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyWhite Plains, NY$75332023
Parkinson's FundAlbert Lea, MN$75222023
Cleveland ClinicAlbert Lea, MN$50112022
Maryland Food BankBaltimore, MD$50112021
Ms Association of AmericaWashington, DC$50222022
Pancreatic Cancer Action NetworkManhattan Beach, CA$50222024
Project HopeHarlan, IA$50112024
Un Hcr ReliefWashington, DC$40112023
Colonial WilliamsburgMerrifield, VA$25112022
Museum of the American RevolutionWashington, DC$25112021
Operation SmileTopeka, KS$25112024
Smile TrainWashington, DC$25112021
The Seeing EyeMorristown, NJ$25112023
National Wwii MuseumWashington, DC$20112021

24 of 41 (59%) 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 44%, 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 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Diseases & Disorders
15 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
International Affairs
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202124$1,089$25
202216$1,100$50
202317$959$50
202422$1,800$75

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. 32% 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
$2K
Virginia
$713
Minnesota
$600
Arizona
$400
District of Columbia
$285
Georgia
$250
New York
$200
North Carolina
$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 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 $50. 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 Eastern Shore Charitable Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 777, Easton, MD, 21601. 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 30-0282099 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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