The Concordia Foundation
Baltimore, MD · EIN 31-1486126. Reported 92 grants totalling $2,605,000 to 49 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. 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. The Concordia 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 $20,000 and $32,500; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $100,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank for New York City Food | New York, NY | $230,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | New York, NY | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Neighbors for Clean Air | Portland, OR | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oregon Food Bank | Portland, OR | $127,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sylvester Manor Educational Farm | Shelter Is, NY | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Oregon Environmental Council Inc | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Reading Team Inc | New York, NY | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Go Project | New York, NY | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West Harlem Environmental Action | New York, NY | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Springboard Collaborative | Philadelphia, PA | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bronxworks Inc | Bronx, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Read Alliance | New York, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Reading Partners | New York, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | New York, NY | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Society of Illustrators | New York, NY | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Natural Resources Defense | New York, NY | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ansonia Music Outreach Organization | New York, NY | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cascadia Action | Seatle, WA | $58,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fund for Portland Public Schools | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jumpstart for Young Children Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Door - a Center for Alternatives Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Early Steps Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean | Toms River, NJ | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gods Love We Deliver Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New York City Environmental Justice | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women in Need Inc | Greenville, TX | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beam Center Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Action Southold Town Inc | Southold, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fund for Public Schools Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green Lents | Portland, OR | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Neighborhood House Inc New Hampshire | Portland, OR | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | Far Hills, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Solar One | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camba Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regional Plan Association Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Arts Council of Princeton | Princeton, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey | Egg Harbor Township, NJ | $21,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercer Street Friends | Trenton, NJ | $21,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Citymeals-on Wheels | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northeast Organic Farming | Titusville, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Verde | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Avenues for Youth | Portland, OR | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City Growers Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opal Environmental Justice Oregon | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Association for Cultural Equity | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Portland State University Foundation | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Volunteers of America - Greater | Alexandria, VA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
22 of 49 (45%) 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 61%, across 3 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 61 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 | 24 | $740,000 | $22,500 |
| 2022 | 23 | $640,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $585,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $640,000 | $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
64% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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 New York.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Concordia Foundation'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: 400 E Pratt Street 200, Baltimore, MD, 21202. 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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