Maryland Philanthropy Network
Baltimore, MD · EIN 52-1326863. Reported 56 grants totalling $2,058,005 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 7% 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.
- How much its list changes. 10% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $34,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $9,500 and the largest $140,850. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
6 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $243,245 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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Kenneth Battye Charitable Trust | Timonium, MD | $140,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Healing Cities Inc | Baltimore, MD | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ignite Capital Inc | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Inc | Annapolis, MD | $99,255 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Byte Back Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $93,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc | Baltimore, MD | $69,737 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Civic Works Inc | Baltimore, MD | $69,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA Inc | Hyattsville, MD | $62,761 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland, CA | $60,390 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Climate Action Network | Takoma Park, MD | $59,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Climate Strategies | Washington, DC | $55,265 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute for Market Transformation Inc | Washington, DC | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 100KM Ventures | Arlington, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Leaders Detroit | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Femly Corporation | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greenmount West Community Center Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Higher Purpose Co | Clarksdale, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Invest Detroit Foundation | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Just Futures Pbc | Wilmington, DE | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latino Economic Development Corporation of Washington DC | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Majority Capital Management Inc | Providence, RI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Resilnc | Greensboro, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spotlight Pr LLC | Columbus, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Strong Children Wellness Medical Group | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Revolve Fund Inc | Baltimore, MD | $49,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $42,245 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | Boulder, CO | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Job Opportunities Task Force Inc | Pikesville, MD | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Denkyem Spc | Renton, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Echoing Green Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Youth Empowered Society Inc | Baltimore, MD | $21,002 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Family Tree Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pass It on Inc | Denver, CO | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Equity Brain Trust | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| May Strategies LLC | Chicago, IL | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Women and Girls Fund | Baltimore, MD | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Acr Capital | Beachwood, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amani Nicol Wellness | Pikesville, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Belt Community Foundation Inc | Selma, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cc Design Studium LLC | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fem Equity LLC | Odenton, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Justis Connection | College Park, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| M O S E S Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Measured Capital LLC | Carver, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Narrative Nation Inc | Bayshore, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pelican Fly LLC Dba Fullblast Steam | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Poppa's Custard Company | Plymouth Meeting, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Station North Arts Cafe' | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Black Mill | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Greater New Orleans Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
4 of 51 (8%) 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.
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.
- Healing Cities Inc
TO TRANSFER FISCAL PROJECT ASSETS TO NEWLY FORMED 501(C)(3) - Maryland League of Conservation Voters
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE CLIMATE PARTNERS AFFINITY GROUP. - Black Leaders Detroit
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY REVOLVE FUND. - Spotlight Pr LLC
TO SUPPORT EFFORTS TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO CAPITAL TO SMALL BUSINESSES OWNED BY LOW-INCOME, MINORITY AND/OR OTHER DISADVANTAGED ENTREPRENEURS OR TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS WHO HISTORICALLY HAVE DIFFICULTY SECURING CAPITAL FROM TRADITIONAL SOURCES. - Ignite Capital Inc
SEED FUNDING FOR SOCIAL ENTREPENEURS - Invest Detroit Foundation
FAM PROGRAM TO SUPPORT BIPOC START UPS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 51 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $243,245 | $36,872 |
| 2022 | 10 | $400,587 | $22,500 |
| 2023 | 21 | $829,171 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 19 | $585,002 | $15,000 |
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
58% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $34,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- 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 Maryland Philanthropy Network's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 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: 1600 W 41 Street Suite 700, Baltimore, MD, 21211.
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