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The Hoenes Family Foundation Inc

Woodbine, MD · EIN 52-2207643. Reported 92 grants totalling $302,700 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$302,700granted, 2021-2024
55organizations funded
52%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,049,055assets, 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 Hoenes 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $48,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
13 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
61 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 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
St John's Episcopal ChurchEllicott City, MD$99,000442024
Howard County Historical SocietyEllicott City, MD$28,500442024
Eagle Voice Center IncGlenelg, MD$13,000442024
First Baptist Church Merrit IslandMerritt Island, FL$13,000222024
In His Image InternationalTulsa, OK$9,500332023
The Children's Home IncCatonsville, MD$9,200332023
First Baptist ChurchMerritt Island, FL$9,000222022
GilchristHunt Valley, MD$9,000332023
Glenelg Country SchoolEllicott City, MD$8,000442024
Casey Cares FoundationColumbia, MD$6,500332024
Kennedy Kreiger InstituteBaltimore, MD$5,500222022
Howard County General Hospital FoundationColumbia, MD$5,000222022
Howard County LibraryEllicott City, MD$5,000112023
Kennedy KriegerBaltimore, MD$5,000112024
Strong City BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$5,000112022
The AssociatedBaltimore, MD$5,000112023
St Paul's SchoolBrooklandville, MD$4,500222022
Blossoms of HopeEllicott City, MD$4,000332023
Historic Ellicott City IncEllicott City, MD$3,500222023
Wounded Warrior ProjectJacksonville, FL$3,500222023
Club at Collington SquareBaltimore, MD$3,000112023
Farmers & Hunters Feeding the HungryWilliamsport, MD$3,000332024
Grassroots Crisis InterventionColumbia, MD$3,000112023
Interfaith PartnersAnnapolis, MD$3,000112023
St James AcademyMonkton, MD$3,000222022
St Paul's School FundBrooklandville, MD$3,000112023
World Central KitchenWashington, DC$3,000112022
Antique Farm Machine ClubWest Friendship, MD$2,500112023
Grassroots Crisis CenterColumbia, MD$2,000112022
Howard Hospital FoundationColumbia, MD$2,000112023
Pink FundSouthfield, MI$2,000222023
Community Foundation of Carroll CountyWestminster, MD$1,600442024
Boy Scouts of Central MarylandBaltimore, MD$1,500112024
Howard Community College Educational FoundationColumbia, MD$1,500112021
Mia Sutphin FoundationEllicott City, MD$1,100222023
American Heart AssociationGlen Allen, VA$1,000112021
Boy Scounts of Central MarylandBaltimore, MD$1,000112023
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse FoundationCape Canaveral, FL$1,000112022
Days End Farm Horse RescueWoodbine, MD$1,000112024
Friends & Foundation of Howard Cnty Library SystemEllicott City, MD$1,000112021
Gred Hutchinson Cancer CenterSeattle, WA$1,000112024
Indigo Discovery Grows OutdoorsRichmond, CA$1,000112022
Lisbon Volunteer Fire DepartmentLisbon, MD$1,000112022
Main Street HousingElkridge, MD$1,000112024
Neighbor Ride ColumbiaColumbia, MD$1,000112023
Roca BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$1,000112023
Sante TotalMetairie, LA$1,000112023
The Halo TrustWashington, DC$1,000112024
The Marshall Legacy InstituteArlington, VA$1,000112022
Love's Calling International IncNorth Palm Beach, FL$700112021
Howard County Antique Farm Machinery Club IncWest Friendship, MD$500112021
National AquariumBaltimore, MD$500112024
University of Maryland School of NursingBaltimore, MD$500112021
Apraxia KidsPittsburgh, PA$300112022
Historic Cocoa Village PlayhouseCocoa, FL$300112022

21 of 55 (38%) 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 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 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 43 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Education
5 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Health Care
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$58,700$1,500
202229$79,100$2,000
202328$81,300$2,250
202415$83,600$1,500

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. 84% 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
$254K
Florida
$28K
Oklahoma
$10K
District of Columbia
$4K
Michigan
$2K
Virginia
$2K
Louisiana
$1K
Washington
$1K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. 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 The Hoenes 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: 15115 Carrs Mill Road, Woodbine, MD, 21797. 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 52-2207643 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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