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Lapidus-Oring Foundation Inc

Pikesville, MD · EIN 52-2057450. Reported 75 grants totalling $421,080 to 41 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$421,080granted, 2021-2025
41recipients, as named on its returns
56%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,059,415assets, 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. Lapidus-Oring 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $7,000; the smallest was $36 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
22 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
33 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
Yeshiva Gedolah Ohr HakorahBaltimore, MD$71,500332025
Sinai HospitalBaltimore, MD$55,000332024
Beth El Soul CenterBaltimore, MD$50,000112021
Associated Jewish CharitiesBaltimore, MD$35,167332025
Ohr Ha TorahBaltimore, MD$35,000222024
Goucher CollegeBaltimore, MD$34,475222023
Mesivta Shaarei ChaimBaltimore, MD$33,332222025
Beth El CongregationBaltimore, MD$27,250552025
Circle CampsPittsburgh, PA$16,000552025
Hadassah Hwzoa Womens Zionist OrganizationNew York, NY$12,000112025
Habitat for HumanityCharlotte, NC$11,000552025
League for People With DisabilitiesBaltimore, MD$9,500552025
Anti-Defamation LeagueWashington, DC$4,000222025
Horizon Day CampsBaltimore, MD$3,000442025
Bnos Yisroel of BaltimoreqBaltimore, MD$2,500112024
HadassahRockville, MD$2,500112025
Boys Town of JerusalemBaltimore, MD$1,800112024
Pikesville Vol Fire DeptPikesville, MD$1,800552025
Yeshiva Toras DovidMuncie, NY$1,800112022
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$1,500222024
Lifespace Foundation - HeDallas, TX$1,500112024
Commnunity KollelBaltimore, MD$1,000112025
Planned ParenthoodBaltimore, MD$1,000112024
Planned Parenthood FaBrownsville, NY$1,000112021
The Associated Federation of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$1,000112022
Torah Institute of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$1,000112022
Yeshiva Toras SimchaPikesville, MD$1,000112025
Alzheimers Assoc of MarylandLutherville, MD$500112021
Dover TzedekLakewood, NJ$500112025
Life Bridge HealthBaltimore, MD$500112025
March for Our Lives FoundationsWashington, DC$500112025
Maryland Food BankBaltimore, MD$500112025
University of MD Baltimore FoundationBaltimore, MD$500112025
Year UpBoston, MA$500112021
Tastewise KidsBaltimore, MD$400112023
St Lawrence UniveristyCanton, NY$150112025
Art With a HeartBaltimore, MD$100112025
St Jude ChildrenMemphis, TN$100112025
United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumWashington, DC$100112025
Jewish Museum of MarylandBaltimore, MD$70112022
Brightright Israel FoundationNew York, NY$36112024

14 of 41 (34%) 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 56%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 13 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.

Health Care
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Civil Rights
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$91,610$1,000
202213$83,770$1,800
202312$74,859$1,000
202416$79,375$1,650
202523$91,466$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

88% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Maryland
$372K
Pennsylvania
$16K
New York
$15K
North Carolina
$11K
District of Columbia
$5K
Texas
$2K
Massachusetts
$500
New Jersey
$500

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsAssociated Jewish Charities of Baltimore6 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America6 shared recipientsT Rowe Price Foundation5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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 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 Lapidus-Oring Foundation Inc'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: 6 Reservoir Circle 103, Pikesville, MD, 21208. 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 52-2057450 · 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.

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