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Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund

Owings Mills, MD · EIN 83-2554462. Reported 51 grants totalling $4,665,400 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

33organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$4,665,400granted, 2021-2023
39%of grantees funded again the next year
46%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. 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.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 46% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 39% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,300 and $50,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $2,140,050. 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
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 grants
$250,000 Or More
3 grants

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
Sterling Donor Advised FundReston, VA$2,140,050112021
Schooling for LifeReston, VA$628,350332023
The Chehalis FoundationChehalis, WA$255,000222022
Best Buddies International IncMiami, FL$200,000222022
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityStanford, CA$200,000112021
Trustees of Amherst CollegeAmherst, MA$200,000112021
The Junior State of America FoundationWashington, DC$175,000222022
Wf West High SchoolChehalis, WA$105,000322022
Smithsonian InstituteWashington, DC$100,000222022
Kids Connect Charitable FundReston, VA$73,050112022
Kehillat Ma Arav-the Westside CongregationSanta Monica, CA$72,500332023
Carroll Child Care Centers IncWestminster, MD$70,000332023
Childrens NationalWashington, DC$50,000112021
Friends of FacesReston, VA$50,000332023
Greater Manhattan Community FoundationManhattan, KS$30,300332023
American Nutrition Association IncChicago, IL$25,000112021
Chinese American Museum FoundationWashington, DC$25,000112021
Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne IncAlexandria, VA$25,000112021
Literacy Council of Carroll County IncWestminster, MD$25,000112023
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$25,000112021
Wing Luke Memorial FoundationSeattle, WA$25,000112021
Bishop MuseumHonolulu, HI$20,000222022
Temple Knesset IsraelLos Angeles, CA$20,000112021
Westminster Presbyterian ChurchWestminster, CO$20,000222022
Young Mens Christian AssociationWashington, DC$20,000112021
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterW Hollywood, CA$16,150112021
Abramson Foundation IncBrooklyn, NY$15,000112021
Epilepsy Foundation of AmericaBowie, MD$10,000112021
Epilepsy Study Consortium IncHerndon, VA$10,000112021
Providence Health & Services FoundationBurbank, CA$10,000112021
Valley Beth ShalomEncino, CA$10,000112021
Mercatus Center IncArlington, VA$7,500112023
The Reason FoundationLos Angeles, CA$7,500112022

12 of 33 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 33 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.

Education
5 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
3 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Medical Research
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202130$3,728,700$25,000
202214$826,100$25,000
20237$110,600$12,500

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

63% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. 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.

Virginia
$2.9M
Washington
$385K
District of Columbia
$370K
California
$336K
Florida
$200K
Massachusetts
$200K
Maryland
$105K
Kansas
$30K

Down to the city

Reston, VA
$2.9M
Washington, DC
$370K
Chehalis, WA
$360K
Miami, FL
$200K
Stanford, CA
$200K
Amherst, MA
$200K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipientsThe Sterling Donor Advised Fund11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 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 $25,000 -- 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 Virginia.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 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: 10045 Red Run Boulevard 250, Owings Mills, MD, 21117.

EIN 83-2554462 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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