Lockhart Vaughan Foundation
Baltimore, MD · EIN 52-1693184. Reported 385 grants totalling $11.1M to 156 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Lockhart Vaughan Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $3,500 and the largest $176,522. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Woods Hole, MA | $313,753 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Teach for America - Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $300,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Enoch Pratt Free Library | Baltimore, MD | $280,000 | 10 | 5 | 2025 |
| Thread Inc | Baltimore, MD | $275,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| KIPP Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $266,473 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| Calvert School | Baltimore, MD | $258,726 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| Blue Water Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $250,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation | Annapolis, MD | $250,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Archdiocese of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $240,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | Baltimore, MD | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Bridges Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $195,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Park School of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $176,522 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Collegebound Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $175,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ingenuity Project Inc | Baltimore, MD | $175,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | Washington, DC | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Emmanuel Church | Baltimore, MD | $161,001 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Law Center | Baltimore, MD | $150,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Literacy Lab | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Talmudical Academy | Baltimore, MD | $147,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Modern Classrooms Project Inc | Washington, DC | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Baltimore, MD | $140,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Derryfield School | Manchester, NH | $138,000 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Building Steps | Brooklandville, MD | $130,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Maryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools | Baltimore, MD | $130,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Fund for Educational Excellence | Baltimore, MD | $125,678 | 5 | 3 | 2025 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $125,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| City Teaching Alliance | Baltimore, MD | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Let's Go Boys and Girls | Baltimore, MD | $120,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Strong Schools Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Middle Grades Partnership | Baltimore, MD | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Baltimore Tree Trust | Baltimore, MD | $106,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Village Learning Place | Baltimore, MD | $105,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Neighborhood Design Center | Baltimore, MD | $102,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Baltimore Neighborhood Development Corporation | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Climate Access Fund | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Upsurge Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Well Done Foundation | Bozeman, MT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Earthjustice | San Francisco, CA | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Center for Climate Change Communication | Fairfax, VA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Maryland Food Bank | Baltimore, MD | $83,916 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Family Alliance | Baltimore, MD | $80,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | $80,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| GENERATION180 | Charlottesville, VA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| No Boundaries Coalition | Baltimore, MD | $80,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Central Maryland Transportation Alliance | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Earthjustice | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Pneuma Inc | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bristol Community College | Falls River, MA | $74,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Curriculum Project | Baltimore, MD | $70,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Maryland Nonprofits | Baltimore, MD | $70,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nature Sacred | Annapolis, MD | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Urban Teachers | Baltimore, MD | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Save the Sound | New Haven, CT | $64,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wide Angle Youth Media | Baltimore, MD | $61,520 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Baltimore Community Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Job Opportunities Task Force | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Next One Up Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Roman Catholic Archdiocese Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge, MA | $58,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arts for Learning Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Mother Seton Academy | Baltimore, MD | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| 4MYCITY Inc | Taneytown, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arts Every Day | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Audubon Mid-Atlantic | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Baltimore Banner | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Climate Partners | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conservation Law Foundation | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| First Fruits Farm Inc | Freeland, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Patterson Park | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Jones Falls | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Healthcare for the Homeless | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Leveling the Playing Field Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Maryland Climate Partners | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maryland Institute College of Art (mica) | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Aquarium | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Next One Up | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Parity Baltimore Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Pigtown Main Street | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Re-Build Metro Inc | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St James Development Corporation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maryland Philanthropy Network | Baltimore, MD | $46,735 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| 29TH Street Community Center | Baltimore, MD | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Play on Purpose Inc | Baltimore, MD | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Springboard Collaborative | Philadelphia, PA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Umbc Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rails to Trails Conservancy | Washington, DC | $43,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Leveling the Playing Field | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tntp Inc - Baltimore City Teaching Residency | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| George Mason University Foundation | Fairfax, VA | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hampden Family Center | Baltimore, MD | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Emmanuel Episcopal Church | Baltimore, MD | $36,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St John's Episcopal Church | West Hartford, CT | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Port Discovery Children's Museum | Baltimore, MD | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Requity Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | West Hartford, CT | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sierra Club Foundation (connecticut Chapter) | West Hartford, CT | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Success for All Foundation | Towson, MD | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Literacy Lab | Pittsburgh, PA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carbon 180 | Washington, DC | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fuel Fund of Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Reading Partners | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brown Memorial Tutoring Program | Baltimore, MD | $28,451 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| B360 (fusion Partnership Inc) | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Helping Oppressed People Excel Hope Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| House of Ruth Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Imentor | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Liberty Elementary School | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mentoring Mentors | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Leaders | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Roland Park Community Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Save the Soundinc | New Haven, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Turnaround Inc | Towson, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Coalition for Rainforest Nations | New York, NY | $23,274 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Red Cross | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baltimore School for the Arts | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Relief Services | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Central Baltimore Partnership | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Clearn Air Task Force | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Code in the Schools | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Direct Relief Services | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dundalk Renaissance Corporation | Dundalk, MD | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fusion Partnership Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Internal Rescue Committee | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Leveling the Playing Field - Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mpt Foundation | Owings Mills, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Patterson Park Public Charter School | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Salvation Army | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Climate Xchange | Boston, MA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Community Lending Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Helping Oppressed People Excel (hope) | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| I-Mentor | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Information Technology & Innovation Foundation | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unity Properties Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Audiences of Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Camp Onaway Trust | Glenside, MD | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church | Baltimore, MD | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Farmland Trust | Hartford, CT | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Design Challenge Network | Hopkinton, NH | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Duquesne University | Pittsburgh, PA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St John's Episcopal Church | West Hartford, MD | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus | Baltimore, MD | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Smarty Scholars | Towson, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stocks in the Future Inc | Towson, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Strong City Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baltimore's Promise | Baltimore, MD | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Korda Institute for Teaching | Cleveland, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Camp Onaway Trust | Glenside, PA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Design Challenge Network | Hopkinton, MD | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Onaway | Bryn Mawr, PA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
91 of 156 (58%) 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 70%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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.
- Talmudical Academy
ENVIRONMENT: SOLAR SYSTEM TO PROMOTE USE OF CLEAN ENERGY. - Calvert School
ENVIRONMENT: CLIMATE CHANGE: SOLAR PANEL ARRAY. - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
CLIMATE CHANGE: SOLAR POWER SYSTEM ON DAVID CENTER FOR OCEAN INNOVATION. - Derryfield School
CLIMATE CHANGE (SOLAR PANELS): 45.6KW ARRAY ON THEIR NEW DINING HALL BUILDING. - Well Done Foundation
CLIMATE CHANGE: PLUGGING ORPHANED WELLS IN BUTLER COUNTY, PA. - Environmental Defense Fund
ENVIRONMENT: ORPHANED OIL WELLS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 262 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 | 81 | $2,052,462 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 74 | $1,897,000 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 66 | $1,653,798 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 86 | $2,770,689 | $25,000 |
| 2025 | 78 | $2,711,200 | $27,500 |
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
80% 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.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Maryland.
- 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.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lockhart Vaughan Foundation'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: 1600 West 41ST Street 700, Baltimore, MD, 21211. 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.
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