Towercares Foundation Inc
Laurel, MD · EIN 47-4164006. Reported 139 grants totalling $1,766,994 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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 Towercares Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70).
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 77% 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $13,000; the smallest was $5,370 and the largest $72,420. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore, MD | $259,372 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Maryland Therapeutic Riding Inc | Crownsville, MD | $85,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Inc | Annapolis, MD | $79,087 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Casey Cares Foundation Inc | Columbia, MD | $77,500 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc | Pasadena, MD | $65,000 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Anne Arundel County Food Bank Inc | Crownsville, MD | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Comfort Cases Inc | Gaithersburg, MD | $60,000 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Fort Meade Alliance Foundation | Hanover, MD | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| National Military Family Association Inc | Alexandria, VA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Travis Manion Foundation | Doylestown, PA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc | Bethesda, MD | $49,500 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc | Oceanside, NY | $43,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Camp Attaway Inc | Columbia, MD | $42,500 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Neighbor Ride Inc | Columbia, MD | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | Rockville, MD | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Partners in Care Maryland Inc | Pasadena, MD | $37,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc | Washington, DC | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Hero Dogs Inc | Brookeville, MD | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fish of Laurel Inc | Laurel, MD | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training Inc | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Our Military Kids Inc | Oakton, VA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Fort Meade Spouses Club | Fort Meade, MD | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| A Wider Circle Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Literacy Council of Carroll County Inc | Westminster, MD | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Maryland Food Bank Inc | Baltimore, MD | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Junior Achievement USA | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation First Response | Culpeper, VA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Annapolis, MD | $22,870 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Warrior Canine Connection Inc | Boyds, MD | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Capital Area Food Bank | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Action Council of Howard County MD Inc | Columbia, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Service Organizations Inc | Arlington, VA | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mercy Medical Angels | Norfolk, VA | $19,665 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Leadership Maryland Inc | Easton, MD | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bridges to Housing Stability Inc | Columbia, MD | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crohns & Colitis Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Operation Warm Heart | Glen Burnie, MD | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington Inc | Washington, DC | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Corporate Partners | New York, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation | Mc Lean, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hospice of the Chesapeake | Pasadena, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maryland Veterans Tr | Annapolis, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Pauls Place Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Philips Chapel Genl Del | Brandywine, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| USA Cares Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| USO Metro - Fort Meade | Fort Myer, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blue Star Families Inc | Encinitas, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Everymind Inc | Rockville, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Angels of Americas Fallen | Colorado Spgs, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
34 of 50 (68%) 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.
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center
SUPPORT FOR CHILD LIFE SERVICES - Anne Arundel County Food Bank
PROVIDES NUTRITIOUS MEALS AND SNACKS FOR LOW-INCOME CHILDREN TO TAKE HOME ON WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS; SUPPORT FOR FOOD BANK - Maryland Food Bank
SUPPORT FOR FOOD BANK; PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR THE SUMMER AND SUPPER CLUB FOR CHILDREN WHO QUALIFY FOR FREE AND REDUCED LUNCHES - Junior Achievement
BIZTOWN PROGRAM TO TEACH FINANCIAL LITERACY AND WORK READINESS TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. - Camp Attaway
TOWERCARES COMMUNITY HERO - Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County
$4 MILLION MILESTONE WINNER; TRANSPORTATION SUBSIDY FOR AT-RISK YOUTH
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 43 of 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $145,350 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $269,897 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 36 | $404,500 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $426,327 | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 33 | $520,920 | $10,000 |
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
77% 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 $10,000 -- 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 Towercares Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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 33 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: 7901 Sandy Spring Road 4TH Floor, Laurel, MD, 20707.
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