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The Huffman Family Foundation Inc

Nottingham, MD · EIN 92-1772272. Reported 32 grants totalling $860,006 to 24 recipients across tax years 2023-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$11,572median grant
$860,006granted, 2023-2025
24recipients, as named on its returns
36%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,211,627assets, 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. The Huffman Family 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 $11,572. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,166 and $31,500; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
9 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Salisbury University Picnic TableSalisbury, MD$258,145222025
Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesChicago, IL$105,195222025
Believe Big FoundationHunt Valley, MD$90,000222025
Notre Dame Preparatory SchoolTowson, MD$71,500222025
Johns Hopkins Children's CenterBaltimore, MD$50,000112025
Metro Maryland Youth for ChristNottingham, MD$50,000112024
Youth for ChristEnglewood, CO$50,000112023
Calvert Hall Coll Rl GrantBaltimore, MD$40,000222025
Mt Washington Pediatric HospitalBaltimore, MD$31,500112025
Kennedy Krieger FoundationBaltimore, MD$25,000112025
Salisbury University Foundation IncSalisbury, MD$20,000112023
Delaware Luekemia LighthouseWilmington, DE$15,000112025
St Paul's- PalsSt Louis Park, MN$10,000222025
Cardinal Crease Club FoundationTowson, MD$5,000112024
Loyola University in MarylandBaltimore, MD$5,000222025
Next One UpBaltimore, MD$5,000112025
Teagan's Tee OffColorado Springs, CO$5,000222025
The Odyssey SchoolLutherville Timonium, MD$5,000112025
The University of Maryland Medical System (umms) FoundationBaltimore, MD$5,000112025
Augie's QuestDenver, CO$3,166112024
Irvine Nature Science Center IncOwings Mills, MD$3,000112023
Cool Kids CampaignTowson, MD$2,500112025
Galilee DREAMERS1 (nafoo)Tivon$2,500112025
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (ifcj)Chicago, IL$2,500112025

8 of 24 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 36%, across 2 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 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 12 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.

Health Care
5 grants
Education
4 grants
Youth Development
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20233$73,000$20,000
202411$181,311$8,145
202518$605,695$10,000

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

78% 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
$667K
Illinois
$108K
Colorado
$58K
Delaware
$15K
Minnesota
$10K

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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 Fund14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsT Rowe Price Program for Charitable11 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc10 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $11,572. 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 The Huffman Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2023-2025). 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: 8029 Corporate Drive, Nottingham, MD, 21236. 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 92-1772272 · 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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