Maryland State Education Association
Annapolis, MD · EIN 52-0607919. Reported 126 grants totalling $4,489,276 to 37 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 37 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. 93% 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 $14,240. Half of what it reported fell between $7,330 and $26,949; the smallest was $5,119 and the largest $350,036. 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 | $1,320,041 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Teachers Association of Baltimore County | Towson, MD | $524,350 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pgcea Mp Pension Tr Stip | Forestville, MD | $484,317 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Harford County Education Association Inc | Bel Air, MD | $255,058 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County Incorporated | Annapolis, MD | $246,649 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Harford County Education Association | Bel Air, MD | $225,700 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Frederick County Teachers Association of Maryland Inc | Frederick, MD | $100,469 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Education Association of Charles County Inc | La Plata, MD | $96,427 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Education Association of St Marys County Inc | Leonardtown, MD | $91,390 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Calvert Association of Educational Support Staff | Prnc Frederck, MD | $83,983 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wicomico County Education Assn | Salisbury, MD | $83,117 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Washington County Teachers Association Inc | Hagerstown, MD | $76,666 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Calvert Education Association Inc | Prnc Frederck, MD | $69,213 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Allegany County Education Assn | Cresaptown, MD | $68,095 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dorchester Educators Inc | Cambridge, MD | $61,314 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Secretaries and Assistants Association of Anne Arundel County | Annapolis, MD | $58,857 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Education Support Professionals of Baltimore County | Towson, MD | $52,115 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carroll County Education Association Inc | Westminster, MD | $50,081 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Minority Scholars Program Inc | Ashton, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Caroline County Educators Association | Easton, MD | $48,678 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Worcester County Teachers Association | Salisbury, MD | $46,396 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Garrett County Education Association | Cumberland, MD | $44,856 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Somerset Education Association Inc | Salisbury, MD | $43,119 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cecil Education Support Personnel Association | North East, MD | $35,605 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association Inc | North East, MD | $32,505 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Frederick County Adminstrators and Supervisors Association | Frederick, MD | $28,403 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carroll Association of School Employees | Westminster, MD | $27,208 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dorchester Administrators & Supervisors Association | Cambridge, MD | $26,486 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Worcester County Education Support Personnel Association | Pittsville, MD | $26,470 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Association of Public School Administrators & Supervisors of Carroll County | Westminster, MD | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Marys Assocation of Supervisors and Adminstrators | Leonardtown, MD | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Garrett Administrators and Supervisors Association Msea Nea I | Grantsville, MD | $19,969 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Association of Public School Administrators and Supervisors of Allegany Cou | Cumberland, MD | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kent County Retired School Personnel Association Inc | Worton, MD | $15,582 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Frederick Association of School Support Employees | Frederick, MD | $12,157 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kent County Education Support Personnel Association Inc | Chestertown, MD | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Washington County Educational Support | Hagerstown, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 37 (92%) 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.
- Montgomery County Education Association
MEMBERSHIP, INNOVATIVE MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING, SPECIAL REQUEST, FIELD SERVICE, EARLY CAREER EDUCATOR, ELECTION ACCOUNTABILITY AND ORGANIZING - Teachers Association of Baltimore County
MEMBERSHIP, INNOVATIVE MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, PUBLIC ADVOCACY, SPECIAL REQUEST, FIELD SERVICE, OTHER GRANTS, TECHNOLOGY - Prince George's County Educators' Association
MEMBERSHIP, INNOVATIVE MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, PUBLIC ADVOCACY, SPECIAL REQUEST, FIELD SERVICE - Howard County Education Association
MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING, PUBLIC ADVOCACY - Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County
MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, FIELD SERVICE, ELECTION ACCOUNTABILITY AND ORGANIZING, TECHNOLOGY - Harford County Education Association
MEMBERSHIP, INNOVATIVE MEMBERSHIP, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, PUBLIC ADVOCACY, SPECIAL REQUEST, FIELD SERVICE, EARLY CAREER EDUCATOR, LOCAL AFFILIATE BOARD RETREAT, HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 of 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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
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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 $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 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 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 36 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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