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G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main

Frederick, MD · EIN 52-6039803. Reported 125 grants totalling $777,250 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,250median grant
$777,250granted, 2021-2024
51organizations funded
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,215,154assets, 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. G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main 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 $4,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,750 and $9,000; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $29,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
66 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
32 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 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
Relig Coalition Emer Human NeedsFrederick, MD$65,750332023
Mcdaniel CollegeWestminster, MD$51,384442024
Frederick County Public LibrariesFrederick, MD$48,750442024
Frederick Health Hospital IncFrederick, MD$46,750442024
Mission of MercyFrederick, MD$43,500442024
Mental Health Association of Frederick County IncFrederick, MD$42,500442024
Hood CollegeFrederick, MD$36,000442024
Hospice of Frederick County IncFrederick, MD$27,500332023
Frederick Community College FdnFrederick, MD$25,500332023
Centro Hispano De Frederick IncFrederick, MD$21,750442024
Heartly House IncFrederick, MD$20,500442024
Second Chances Garage IncFrederick, MD$20,500332023
Department of Housing and Human ServicesFrederick, MD$20,000222024
Frederick Community Action AgencyFrederick, MD$19,750112021
Frederick Rescue Mission IncFrederick, MD$19,500442024
Rebuilding Together With Christmas in April Frederick County MD IncFrederick, MD$18,050442024
Faith HouseFrederick, MD$16,609442024
Advocates for Homeless Families IncFrederick, MD$16,500442024
Weinberg Center for the Arts IncFrederick, MD$16,500442024
Frederick Arts Council IncFrederick, MD$15,750442024
Justice Jobs of MarylandFrederick, MD$12,500222022
Crossed BridgesFrederick, MD$12,250332024
Up & Out Foundation IncEmmitsburg, MD$11,000332023
Beyond Shelter FrederickFrederick, MD$10,000112024
Heritage FrederickFrederick, MD$10,000222024
Homewood at Frederick MD IncWilliamsport, MD$9,900222024
Delaplaine Arts CenterFrederick, MD$9,750442024
Homewood Foundation IncWilliamsport, MD$9,641222022
Trinity United Methodist ChurchFrederick, MD$9,070442024
Frederick Health HospiceFrederick, MD$9,000112024
National Museum for Civil War Medicine IncFrederick, MD$8,225112024
Care for Als IncRidgely, MD$8,000222023
February Star SanctuaryBrunswick, MD$8,000222024
Safe Ride FoundationFrederick, MD$6,000222024
The Frederick ChoraleFrederick, MD$6,000332024
Trinity Pastoral Counseling CenterFrederick, MD$4,750222022
Frederick County 4-H Therapeutic RidingThurmont, PA$4,121222024
Arc of Frederick County IncFrederick, MD$4,000112024
Get Kids OutsideKnoxville, MD$4,000222024
Operation No Person Left Behind Outdoors IncLibertytown, MD$4,000222024
African American Resources Cultural and Heritage SocietyFrederick, MD$3,750112021
Frederick County 4-H Therapeutic Riding ProgramThurmont, MD$2,250112021
Blessings in a BackpackFrederick, MD$2,000112024
L'arche Frederick Maryland IncFrederick, MD$2,000112024
Maryland Ensemble TheatreFrederick, MD$2,000112024
Mother Seton School IncEmmitsburg, MD$2,000112023
NAMI Maryland IncColumbia, MD$2,000112024
Platoon 22Frederick, MD$2,000112024
Seton Center IncEmmitsburg, MD$2,000112024
Ship of Frederick CountyFrederick, MD$2,000112024
Student Homelessness Initiative Partnership of Frederick CountyFrederick, MD$2,000112023

35 of 51 (69%) 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 85%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 81 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
26 grants
Arts & Culture
16 grants
Housing & Shelter
8 grants
Health Care
7 grants
Mental Health
7 grants
Education
5 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202128$217,000$5,000
202227$193,250$5,250
202333$173,000$4,000
202437$194,000$4,000

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. 99% 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
$773K
Pennsylvania
$4K

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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.

The Community Foundation of Frederick27 shared recipientsAusherman Family Foundation19 shared recipientsAusherman Family Trust18 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsWilliam E Cross Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,250. 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 G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main'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: 3808 Basford Rd, Frederick, MD, 21703. 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 52-6039803 · 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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