Maryland State Education Association
Annapolis, MD · EIN 52-0607919. Reported 163 grants totalling $5,909,808 to 42 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. For Maryland State Education Association, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 29% 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. 91% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $14,240. Half of what it reported fell between $7,330 and $29,222; the smallest was $5,119 and the largest $368,882. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County Education Association Inc | Rockville, MD | $1,688,923 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Teachers Association of Baltimore County | Towson, MD | $693,377 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Pgcea Mp Pension Tr Stip | Forestville, MD | $624,277 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County Incorporated | Annapolis, MD | $331,984 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Harford County Education Association Inc | Bel Air, MD | $329,396 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Harford County Education Association | Bel Air, MD | $298,679 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Frederick County Teachers Association of Maryland Inc | Frederick, MD | $137,519 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Education Association of Charles County Inc | La Plata, MD | $125,649 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Education Association of St Marys County Inc | Leonardtown, MD | $123,695 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Calvert Association of Educational Support Staff | Prnc Frederck, MD | $113,127 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Minority Scholars Program Inc | Ashton, MD | $107,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wicomico County Education Assn | Salisbury, MD | $101,907 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Washington County Teachers Association Inc | Hagerstown, MD | $97,881 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Calvert Education Association Inc | Prnc Frederck, MD | $94,698 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Allegany County Education Assn | Cresaptown, MD | $90,974 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dorchester Educators Inc | Cambridge, MD | $78,460 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Carroll County Education Association Inc | Westminster, MD | $78,327 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Education Support Professionals of Baltimore County | Towson, MD | $66,168 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Secretaries and Assistants Association of Anne Arundel County | Annapolis, MD | $64,857 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Caroline County Educators Association | Easton, MD | $59,678 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Worcester County Teachers Association | Salisbury, MD | $57,786 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Somerset Education Association Inc | Salisbury, MD | $54,581 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Garrett County Education Association | Cumberland, MD | $52,886 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cecil Education Support Personnel Association | North East, MD | $42,605 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Carroll Association of School Employees | Westminster, MD | $40,461 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association Inc | North East, MD | $39,775 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Frederick Association of School Support Employees | Frederick, MD | $32,494 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dorchester Administrators & Supervisors Association | Cambridge, MD | $32,486 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| St Marys Assocation of Supervisors and Adminstrators | Leonardtown, MD | $30,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Frederick County Adminstrators and Supervisors Association | Frederick, MD | $28,403 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Worcester County Education Support Personnel Association | Pittsville, MD | $26,470 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Garrett Administrators and Supervisors Association Msea Nea I | Grantsville, MD | $25,969 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Association of Public School Administrators & Supervisors of Carroll County | Westminster, MD | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Association of Public School Administrators and Supervisors of Allegany Cou | Cumberland, MD | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington County Educational Support | Hagerstown, MD | $16,153 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kent County Retired School Personnel Association Inc | Worton, MD | $15,582 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nea Member Benefits Relief Fund | Gaithersburg, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kent County Education Support Personnel Association Inc | Chestertown, MD | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maryland Democratic Party Administrative Account | Annapolis, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Queen Annes County Education Association Inc | Centreville, MD | $9,282 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $6,759 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Talbot County Education Association Inc | Easton, MD | $6,240 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
37 of 42 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Montgomery County Education Association
EARLY CAREER EDUCATOR GRANTS, FIELD SERVICE GRANT, INNOVATIVE MEMBERSHIP GRANT, MEMBERSHIP GRANT, OTHER GRANTS, PROFESSIONAL, DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING GRANT, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE GRANT - Teachers Association of Baltimore County
FIELD SERVICE GRANT, MEMBERSHIP GRANT, OTHER GRANTS, PUBLIC ADVOCACY GRANT, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE GRANT, SPARKS TRAINING GRANTS - Prince George's County Educators' Association
MEMBERSHIP, INNOVATIVE MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, PUBLIC ADVOCACY, SPECIAL REQUEST, FIELD SERVICE - Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County
FIELD SERVICE GRANT, LOCAL BOARD RETREAT GRANTS, MEMBERSHIP GRANT, OTHER GRANTS, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE GRANT - Howard County Education Association
MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING, PUBLIC ADVOCACY - Harford County Education Association
EARLY CAREER EDUCATOR GRANTS, FIELD SERVICE GRANT, INNOVATIVE MEMBERSHIP GRANT, MEMBERSHIP GRANT, OTHER GRANTS, PROFESSIONAL, DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING GRANT, PUBLIC ADVOCACY GRANT, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE GRANT, SPECIAL REQUEST GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 14 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $1,142,187 | $14,370 |
| 2021 | 27 | $972,139 | $14,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $1,082,462 | $14,150 |
| 2023 | 36 | $1,292,488 | $17,762 |
| 2024 | 37 | $1,420,532 | $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
100% 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $14,240 -- 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 State Education Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 34 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: 140 Main St, Annapolis, MD, 21401.
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