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The Footlick Family Foundation Inc

Pikesville, MD · EIN 52-2030647. Reported 43 grants totalling $561,860 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$561,860granted, 2021-2024
25organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$606,628assets, 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. The Footlick Family 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $5,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $168,750. 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
9 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Mcdonogh SchoolOwings Mills, MD$235,000332024
The Associatedjewish Federation of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$151,750332024
Lifebridge HealthBaltimore, MD$56,000112022
The Associated Jewish Federation of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$52,800112021
Lifebridge Health Corporate DevelopmentOwings Mills, MD$22,500112024
Philanthropy TankWest Palm Beach, FL$17,500222022
Eden InitiativeStevenson, MD$5,000112024
Horizon Day CampBaltimore, MD$4,500332023
Baltimore Hebrew CongregationBaltimore, MD$4,030222022
Baltimore Hunger ProjectCockeysville, MD$2,000332023
Gem Living Classrooms ProgramBaltimore, MD$1,800112022
Baltimore Women's Giving Circle FundBaltimore, MD$1,150112022
Maryland Food BankBaltimore, MD$1,150332023
Admirals Cove FoundationJupiter, FL$1,000222024
Living Classrooms FoundationBaltimore, MD$1,000112024
Baltimore Symphony OrchestraBaltimore, MD$750222023
Edward a Myerberg CenterBaltimore, MD$750222022
Brain Aneurysm FoundationHanover, MA$500112023
Franklin & Marshall DacLancaster, PA$500222024
Jewish Museum of MarylandBaltimore, MD$500222023
The League for People With Disabilities IncBaltimore, MD$500222022
US Holocaust Memorial MuseumWashington, DC$500112022
Mpt Foundation IncOwings Mills, MD$250112022
Pikesville Volunteer Fire CompanyPikesville, MD$250112021
Weitzman Museum of American Jewish HistoryPhiladelphia, PA$180112023

13 of 25 (52%) 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 33%, 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 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Education
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Religion
2 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$70,650$500
202215$133,930$1,150
202310$107,480$375
20247$249,800$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. 96% 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
$542K
Florida
$18K
Pennsylvania
$680
Massachusetts
$500
District of Columbia
$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 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsAssociated Jewish Charities of Baltimore12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipientsBaltimore Community Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. 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 The Footlick Family 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: 2331 Old Court Road 303, 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 52-2030647 · 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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