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Morris Weinman Memorial Foundation Inc

Owings Mills, MD · EIN 45-4681120. Reported 167 grants totalling $306,650 to 45 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$306,650granted, 2021-2024
45recipients, as named on its returns
98%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,482,633assets, 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. Morris Weinman Memorial 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $750 and $2,000; the smallest was $350 and the largest $19,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
49 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
112 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 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
The AssociatedBaltimore, MD$72,050442024
Dystonia Medical Research FoundationChicago, IL$16,000442024
The Als AssociationBoone, IA$15,000442024
Maryland Food BankBaltimore, MD$14,000442024
Chrohn's & Colitis Foundation of AmericaNew York, NY$12,000442024
Women's Housing Coalition IncBaltimore, MD$11,000442024
Friends School of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$10,750442024
The Nature ConservancyBethesda, MD$8,250222022
House of RuthBaltimore, MD$8,000442024
The Nature ConservancyMerrifield, VA$8,000222024
Arts for LearningBaltimore, MD$7,500332024
MazonBaltimore, MD$7,500442024
Kennedy Krieger InstituteBaltimore, MD$6,000442024
Chesapeake Bay FoundationBaltimore, MD$5,250442024
Meals on WheelsBaltimore, MD$5,000442024
350ORGBoston, MA$4,500442024
Chesapeake Wildlife HeritageChester, MD$4,500442024
Conservation InternationalBoston, MA$4,500442024
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer CenterBaltimore, MD$4,500442024
Living Classrooms FoundationBaltimore, MD$4,500442024
Oxfam-America IncBoston, MA$4,500442024
Rainforest AllianceNew York, NY$4,500442024
American Council on Renewable EnergyWashington, DC$4,250442024
Nrdc Natural Resource Defense CouncilMerrifield, VA$4,250442024
Shepherd's ClinicBaltimore, MD$4,250442024
Edf Enviromental Defense FundWashington, DC$3,750442024
Habitat for Humanity IntlAmericus, GA$3,750442024
Heifer Project InternationalLittle Rock, AR$3,750442024
Wounded WarriorsTopeka, KS$3,500442024
America's Promise AllianceWashington, DC$3,250442024
Health Care for the Homeless IncBaltimore, MD$3,250442024
Help Heal VeteransWinchester, CA$3,250442024
Heroes Helping HeroesBaltimore, MD$3,250442024
HiasWashington, DC$3,250442024
Maryland CASA AssociationTowson, MD$3,250442024
One Love FoundationBronxville, NY$3,250442024
Bread for the World InstituteWashington, DC$3,000442024
Helping Up MissionBaltimore, MD$3,000442024
Young Audience of MarylandBaltimore, MD$2,500112021
Grand Teton National Park FoundationMoose, WY$2,250442024
Dr Ira T Fine Discovery FundLutherville, MD$2,000332024
The American Jewish CommiteeNew York, NY$2,000442024
Metro Council on Jewish PovertyNew York, NY$1,850442024
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyNew York, NY$1,000222024
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyOwings Mills, MD$1,000222022

44 of 45 (98%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 98%, across 3 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.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 74 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.

Environment
14 grants
International Affairs
12 grants
Education
12 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Medical Research
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202142$73,300$1,000
202242$88,000$1,500
202341$75,750$1,000
202442$69,600$1,000

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

62% 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
$191K
New York
$25K
District of Columbia
$18K
Illinois
$16K
Iowa
$15K
Massachusetts
$14K
Virginia
$12K
Georgia
$4K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund20 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust15 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America14 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Morris Weinman Memorial Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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 623, Owings Mills, MD, 21117. 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 45-4681120 · 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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