Elno Family Foundation Inc
Bethesda, MD · EIN 52-1937414. Reported 515 grants totalling $1,499,214 to 133 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Elno Family Foundation Inc checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
4 of the organizations Elno Family Foundation Inc funded make grants themselves, and it reported 10 grants totalling $110,000 to them. That is 12% of the $895,014 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Jewish Federation of Greater | federated giving programme | Maryland | $95,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| The Vermont Community Foundation | community foundation | Vermont | $12,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| California Community Foundation | community foundation | California | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc | federated giving programme | Massachusetts | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $27,839.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B'nai Israel Congregation | Rockville, MD | $107,414 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Washington | North Bethesda, MD | $95,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America | Washington, DC | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Home of Greater Washington | Rockville, MD | $77,800 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Social Services Agency | Rockville, MD | $65,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $42,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Doctors Without Borders | Hagerstown, MD | $28,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood | Washington, DC | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Gr Wash | North Bethesda, MD | $27,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lotus Campaign | Charlotte, NC | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Wilmer Eye Institute | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| United Hatzalah of Isreal | New York City, NY | $24,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Americus, GA | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Amer Assoc-Ben Gurion University of the Neg | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Schechter Institutes Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Magen David Adom-Armdi | New York City, NY | $19,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Alexander Muss Institute of Israeli Education | Rockville Center, NY | $18,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Anti-Defamation League | Washington, DC | $18,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hadassah | New York City, NY | $18,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Womens Reproductive Rights Assistance Pro | Santa Monica, CA | $18,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| National Jewish Medical & Research Center | Denver, CO | $17,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Mad River Valley Community Fund | Waitsfield, VT | $16,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Capital Area Food Bank | Washington, DC | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | Boston, MA | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish National Fund | New York City, NY | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Marys Center for Maternalchild Care | Washington, DC | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Naral-Pro Choice America | Washington, DC | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Westside Food Bank | Santa Monica, CA | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Women for Women International | Central Islip, NY | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America | North Bethesda, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hillel of University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Homeless Childrens Playtime Project | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| California Fire Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Mazon | Los Angeles, CA | $14,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Some | Washington, DC | $14,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Razom Inc | New York City, NY | $13,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| American Technion Society | Potomac, MD | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Americares | Stamford, CT | $12,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lifeline for the Old | Englewood, NJ | $12,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Vermont Community Foundation | Middlebury, VT | $12,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Waterorg | Kansas City, MO | $12,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The V Foundation for Cancer Research | Cary, NC | $10,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Active Minds | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American Civil Liberties Union | New York City, NY | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | New York City, NY | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans | New York City, NY | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| House of Ruth | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Masorti Foundation Conservative Judaism | New York City, NY | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| United States Holocaust Museum | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| UNITED24-Ukraine House DC Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Victims First | Chino Hills, CA | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Makom (formerly Jfgh) | Rockville, MD | $8,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Brain and Behavior Research Foundation | New York City, NY | $8,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Protect the Children Future Corp | Bowie, MD | $7,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bruce Edwards Foundation for Als Research | Crownsville, MD | $7,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety | New York City, NY | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Iona Senior Services | Washington, DC | $7,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Suburban Hospital | Bethesda, MD | $7,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Chi Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $6,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carol Jean Cancer Foundation | Columbia, MD | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central Asia Institute | Bozeman, MT | $6,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Childrens National Hospital Foundation | Silver Spring, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Determined 2 Heal | Potomac, MD | $6,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hospital for Sick Children | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Innovative Genomics Initiative | Berkley, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Israel Guide Dog Center | Warrington, PA | $6,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Herb Cohen Memorial Fund | Cockeysville, MD | $5,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| A Wider Circle | Silver Spring, MD | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Amer Assoc-Ben Gurion University of the Neg | New York City, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York City, NY | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Arts for the Aging | Gaithersburg, MD | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bbyo International | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Eagle Bank Foundation | Bethesda, MD | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Florida Studio Theater | Sarasota, FL | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Gavi-Vaccine Alliance Secretariat | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girls Who Code | New York City, NY | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | Kahului, HI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| High Fives Foundation | Truckee, CA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Community Center | Rockville, MD | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mothers Against Drunk Driving | Irving, TX | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mspca-Angell Animal Medical Center | Boston, MA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Operation Understanding | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood | New York City, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shirley Povich Center | College Park, MD | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Jimmy Fund | Brookline, MA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Two Hands Four Paws Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge, MA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Weta Radio | Arlington, VA | $4,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| WGBH Radio | Boston, MA | $4,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Alopecia Areata Foundation | San Rafael, CA | $4,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Main Street Connect | Rockville, MD | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ovarian Cancer National Alliance | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Silver Spring Village | Silver Spring, MD | $3,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American Kidney Fund | Rockville, MD | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Avodah Jewish Service Corp | Washington, DC | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Washington, DC | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | New York City, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Adventist Healthcare Rehab Hospital | Rockville, MD | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Aiga- Professional Association for Design | New York City, NY | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Codeorg | Seattle, WA | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Four Paws for Ability | Xenia, OH | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Foundation for Group Homes | Rockville, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health | Stockbridge, MA | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Elephant Sanctuary | Hohenwald, TN | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Vested Interest in K9'S | East Taunton, MA | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| 2LIFE Communities | Brighton, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Avodah Jewish Service Corp | Brooklyn, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Brother Wolf Animal Rescue | Asheville, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Bethesda, MD | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| For Their Thoughts Foundation | Oceanside, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Israeli Tennis Centers Foundation | New York City, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Leaf Global Arts | Asheville, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manna Food Bank - Asheville | Asheville, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mountain Housing Opportunities | Asheville, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northest Organic Farming Assoc of Vermont | Richmond, VT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Project Camp | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Trevor Project | West Hollywood, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Toys for Tots | Des Moines, IA | $1,750 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Alzheimers Association | Chicago, IL | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Morgan Pressel Foundation | Delray Beach, FL | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Breakthrough Tid | Hagerstown, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends Club | Bethesda, MD | $1,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| International Medicla Relief | Loveland, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sunflower Bakery | Rockville, MD | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Department | Bethesda, MD | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus | Washington, DC | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ohr Kodesh Congregation | Chevy Chase, MD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Teens for Food Justice | New York City, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bethesda Community Baseball Club | Bethesda, MD | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hands of Love Foundation | Potomac, MD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
110 of 133 (83%) 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 92%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- B'nai Israel Congregation
$11,338 - RELIGIOUS PROGRAMS, SERVICES$10,000 - CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION - Hebrew Home of Greater Washington
HEALTH CARE/GUARDIAN CAMPAIGN/ELDER SAFE SUPPORT - Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America
SUMMER CAMP AND MEDICAL RESEARCH - Jewish Social Services Agency
$5,000 - CHILDREN AND ELDERLY SERVICES ENDOWMENTS$3,000 - HOSPICE SERVICES$5,000 - HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PROGRAM - Planned Parenthood
REPRODUCTIVE SERVICE PROGRAMS - World Central Kitchen
SUPPORT DISASTER RELIEF - GAZA
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 242 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 98 | $271,135 | $2,000 |
| 2022 | 108 | $322,389 | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 105 | $279,226 | $2,000 |
| 2024 | 105 | $301,076 | $2,000 |
| 2025 | 99 | $325,388 | $2,000 |
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
38% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland.
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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. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Elno Family 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: 6705 Bonaventure Court, Bethesda, MD, 20817. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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