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Eastern Shore Charitable Foundation Inc

Easton, MD · EIN 30-0282099. Reported 94 grants totalling $5,677 to 45 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50median grant
$5,677granted, 2021-2025
45recipients, as named on its returns
41%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,665assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Eastern Shore Charitable Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $50. Half of everything it gave fell between $25 and $75; the smallest was $20 and the largest $219. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
94 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
George Washington's Mount VernonMt Vernon, VA$438222023
Doctors Without BordersHagerstown, MD$350222024
Mercy CorpsPrescott, AZ$250442024
Prostate Cancer FoundationAlbert Lea, MN$250442024
Alzheimers AssociationTimonium, MD$225332025
American Cancer SocietySalisbury, MD$225332024
American Diabetes AssociationAlexandria, VA$225442025
Als AssociationPueblo, CO$210552025
Easton Rotary Youth & Community FundEaston, MD$200222024
Moldova World Childrens' Fund IncHendersonville, NC$200112022
Macular Degeneration ResearchClarksburg, MD$175442025
Mercy ShipsGarden Valley, TX$175222024
The Glaucoma FoundationNew York, NY$175442025
American Heart AssocPhoenix, AZ$150112024
Arthritis FundAtlanta, GA$150112024
Mt Vernon LadiesMerrifield, VA$139112025
American Battlefield TrustMerrifield, VA$125332025
American Lung AssociationAlbert Lea, MN$125332024
National Glaucoma ResearchClarksburg, MD$125222024
USOWashington, DC$125222024
American Kidney FundLewiston, ME$100332024
Arthritis FoundationAtlanta, GA$100222023
Crohns & Colitis FoundationAlbert Lea, MN$100332024
Episcopal ReliefHarlan, IA$100112024
National Parkinson FoundationHagerstown, MD$100222024
Pancreatic Cancer Action NetworkManhattan Beach, CA$100332025
Project HopeHarlan, IA$100222025
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at John HopkinsBaltimore, MD$100112022
American Red CrossBaltimore, MD$75112024
Friends of HospiceEaston, MD$75112021
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyWhite Plains, NY$75332023
Parkinson's FundAlbert Lea, MN$75222023
Museum of the American RevolutionWashington, DC$60222025
Smile TrainWashington, DC$60222025
Cleveland ClinicAlbert Lea, MN$50112022
Maryland Food BankBaltimore, MD$50112021
Ms Association of AmericaWashington, DC$50222022
Parkinson's FoundationAlbert Lea, MN$50112025
The Seeing EyeMorristown, NJ$50222025
Un Hcr ReliefWashington, DC$40112023
America's VetdogsSmithtown, NY$35112025
Colonial WilliamsburgMerrifield, VA$25112022
National Ms SocietyWashington, DC$25112025
Operation SmileTopeka, KS$25112024
National Wwii MuseumWashington, DC$20112021

28 of 45 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 41%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Diseases & Disorders
18 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
International Affairs
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202124$1,089$25
202216$1,100$50
202317$959$50
202422$1,800$75
202515$729$50

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

30% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Maryland
$2K
Virginia
$952
Minnesota
$650
Arizona
$400
District of Columbia
$380
New York
$285
Georgia
$250
Colorado
$210

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. 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.

National Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsGe Aerospace Foundation8 shared recipientsTexas Instruments Foundation8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $50. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Maryland.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Eastern Shore Charitable Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 777, Easton, MD, 21601. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 30-0282099 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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