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Second Street & Hope Inc

Frederick, MD · EIN 33-1027333. Reported 32 grants totalling $290,484 to 22 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$290,484granted, 2020-2023
22organizations funded
52%of grantees funded again the next year

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. Second Street & Hope 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $300 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 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
United Way of Frederick County IncFrederick, MD$75,000222023
I Belive in MeFrederick, MD$26,290112022
Living Water Shower MinistryWalkersville, MD$25,000112023
Life and Discovery Inc Asian American Center of FrederickFrederick, MD$17,500222023
City Youth Matrix CorporationNew Market, MD$15,921332023
Rainbow of Love Recovery FoundationFrederick, MD$15,000112020
Second Chances GarageFrederick, MD$15,000222023
I Believe in Me IncFrederick, MD$13,071222021
Frederick County Public SchoolsFrederick, MD$12,400222023
Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership IncFrederick, MD$10,000222023
Literacy Council of Frederick County MarylandFrederick, MD$10,000222023
SoarFrederick, MD$10,000222023
United Way of FrederickFrederick, MD$10,000112021
Children of Incarcerated Parents PaFrederick, MD$9,000112020
Crossroads Freedom CenterFrederick, MD$8,000112023
Advocates for Homeless Families IncFrederick, MD$5,000112023
Brunswick Ecumenical Assistance Committee on Needs IncBrunswick, MD$5,000112022
Interfaith Housing Alliance IncFrederick, MD$5,000112023
Each 1 Teach 1 IncFrederick, MD$2,200112023
Glioblastoma Foundation IncDurham, NC$500112023
Listen Love Pray Foundation IncUnion Bridge, MD$302112023
Beading Hearts Overdose Loss Support Group IncPatchogue, NY$300112023

9 of 22 (41%) 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 52%, across 2 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 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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Medical Research
1 grant
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20204$36,421$7,750
20212$16,571$8,285
202210$109,690$5,000
202316$127,802$5,000

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. 100% 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
$290K
North Carolina
$500
New York
$300

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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 Frederick13 shared recipientsAusherman Family Trust10 shared recipientsAusherman Family Foundation9 shared recipientsUnited Way of Frederick County Inc8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. 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 Second Street & Hope Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2022-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 305, Jefferson, MD, 21755. 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 33-1027333 · 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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