The Aber D Unger Foundation Inc
Baltimore, MD · EIN 52-6034758. Reported 115 grants totalling $1,451,001 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. The Aber D Unger 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fund for Educational Excellence | Baltimore, MD | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Propublica | New York, NY | $107,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund | New York, NY | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teach for America | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trace Media | Brooklyn, NY | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Al Otro Lado | San Ysidro, CA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fund for the City of New York | New York, NY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arts for Learning Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| International Rescue Committee | Baltimore, MD | $37,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| ACLU Foundation | New York, NY | $32,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Raices | San Antonio, TX | $32,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ogunquit Museum of the Arts | Ogunquit, ME | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends Service Committee | Philadelphia, PA | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Partners in Health | Boston, MA | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Maryland Nonprofits | Baltimore, MD | $26,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Community Mediation Center | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of the High Line | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Open Society Institute - Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Immigration Council | Philadelphia, PA | $23,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Community Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Visionary Art Museum | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Highline | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hampden Family Center | Baltimore, MD | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Justice Innovation | New York, NY | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Project Pneuma | Baltimore, MD | $17,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Public Citizen Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,001 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amica Center for Immigrant Rights | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Democracy Forward Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dia Art Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Witness Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Raw Trust - Ingoma Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucsonno More Dealths | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Worchester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lambda Legal | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bowery Resident's Committee Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gloabal Witness Foundation | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Witness Foundation | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Happy Teacher Revolution Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood | Columbia, MD | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Old York Historical Society | York, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| York Volunteer Fire Department Corporation | York, ME | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Building Our Nation's Daughters | Baltimore, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
30 of 50 (60%) 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 71%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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.
- Propublica
FOR USE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ESTABLISHED PURPOSE OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION - Teach for America
FOR USE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ESTABLISHED PURPOSE OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 72 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $390,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 30 | $342,500 | $9,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | $313,000 | $7,000 |
| 2024 | 25 | $405,501 | $10,000 |
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. 40% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- 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.
- 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 The Aber D Unger 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: One South Street 2500, Baltimore, MD, 21202. 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.
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