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Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc

Baltimore, MD · EIN 81-4607977. Reported 62 grants totalling $1,585,235 to 24 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$1,585,235granted, 2020-2023
87%of grantees funded again the next year
16%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P51) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 87% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,969 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,216 and the largest $154,390. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
22 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

15 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $359,411 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cash Campaign of Maryland IncBaltimore, MD$254,390222023
Shore Up IncSalisbury, MD$190,300442023
Human Services Programs of Carroll County IncWestminster, MD$128,704442023
Allegany County Human Resources Development Commission IncCumberland, MD$104,894442023
Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation IncLa Plata, MD$104,467442023
Cross Community IncGaithersburg, MD$95,501332023
CASA IncHyattsville, MD$93,000442023
United Way of Frederick County IncorporatedFrederick, MD$87,000442023
Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee IncOakland, MD$66,663442023
Maryland Center on Economic Policy IncBaltimore, MD$60,000222022
Prince Georges Community College Foundation IncLargo, MD$57,685332023
Making Change IncColumbia, MD$55,000332023
Delmarva Community Services IncCambridge, MD$44,500442023
Baltimore Infants and Toddlers Program$38,115112022
Dundalk Renaissance Corporation$33,912222023
University of Maryland School of Medicine Nicu$32,155112021
Center for Urban Families IncBaltimore, MD$29,384222023
Community Tax Aid IncWashington, DC$28,000332023
Bon Secours Community Works IncBaltimore, MD$20,760112023
Capital Area Food BankWashington, DC$20,000222022
Inner-County Outreach IncAberdeen, MD$14,961222023
Housing Options & Planning Enterprises IncOxon Hill, MD$10,969112023
Prince George's Cash Campaign$8,000112022
Anne Arundel Community College Foundation IncArnold, MD$6,875112023

18 of 24 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
8 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Social Science
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20209$156,000$15,000
202115$359,411$20,479
202219$522,435$18,500
202319$547,389$20,760

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

97% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Maryland
$1.4M
District of Columbia
$48K

Down to the city

Baltimore, MD
$365K
Salisbury, MD
$190K
Westminster, MD
$129K
Cumberland, MD
$105K
La Plata, MD
$104K
Gaithersburg, MD
$96K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 United Way of Central Maryland Inc8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsBaltimore Community Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 575 S Charles St Ste 500, Baltimore, MD, 21201.

EIN 81-4607977 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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