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The Morgan Family Foundation Inc

Lutherville, MD · EIN 52-1853976. Reported 61 grants totalling $131,807 to 42 recipients across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$131,807granted, 2020-2023
42recipients, as named on its returns
75%of grantees funded again the next year
$16,083assets, 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 Morgan 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $380 and $3,000; the smallest was $25 and the largest $23,785. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
26 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
29 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
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
The Jemicy SchoolOwings Mills, MD$28,785222023
Calvert Hall CollegeBaltimore, MD$9,875332023
Safe Harbor ChurchFt Myers, FL$9,500112020
Archbishop Curley HsBaltimore, MD$9,000322023
The Legacy SchoolSykesville, MD$8,000222023
Grace Fellowship ChurchTimonium, MD$7,100112020
Highland SchoolBel Air, MD$6,610222023
Proctor AcademyAndover, NH$6,000222023
Odyssey SchoolTimonium, MD$5,500222023
Bishop Walsh SchoolCumberland, MD$5,000222023
Maryvale Preparatory SchoolLutherville, MD$5,000222023
Boys Latin SchoolTowson, MD$4,000222023
Mercey High SchoolBaltimore, MD$4,000222023
Mt St Joseph High SchoolBaltimore, MD$4,000222023
The John Carroll SchoolBel Air, MD$4,000222023
Women's Education AllianceTowson, MD$2,250112020
Mount De Sales AcademyCatonsville, MD$2,000222023
World VisionTacoma, WA$1,990222022
Loyola High SchoolTowson, MD$1,500222023
Compassion InternationalColorado Springs, CO$1,472222022
The Franciscan CenterBaltimore, MD$900112020
Baltimore Life CoalitionMillersville, MD$500112020
Cristo Rey Jesuit SchoolBaltimore, MD$500112022
Fellowship of Christian AthletesBaltimore, MD$500112020
First Tee of BaltimoreCockeysville, MD$500112020
The Semi-Colon ClubReisterstown, MD$500112020
Youth for ChristBaltimore, MD$500112020
Maryland Board of Football OfficialsBaltimore, MD$300112022
Evans Scholars FoundationGolf, IL$250112020
The Summit SchoolEdgewater, MD$250112022
Cbmc IncButtler, MD$200112020
Our Daily BreadBaltimore, MD$200112020
The Christian BrothersNew Rochelle, NY$200112020
The Heritage FoundationWashington, DC$200112020
Americah Heart AssociationDallas, TX$100112020
Baltimore Boys of SummerEssex, MD$100112020
International Dyslexia AssnTowson, MD$100112020
Lutherville Volunteer Fire CoLutherville, MD$100112020
National Football FoundationIrving, TX$100112020
Prostate Cancer FoundationSanta Monica, CA$100112020
The Salvation ArmyEllicott City, MD$100112020
The American LegionBaltimore, MD$25112020

17 of 42 (40%) 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 75%, across 1 year-to-year transition. 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 20 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.

Education
12 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant
Religion
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202025$26,867$250
202220$50,820$3,000
202316$54,120$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

85% 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
$112K
Florida
$10K
New Hampshire
$6K
Washington
$2K
Colorado
$1K
Illinois
$250
Texas
$200
District of Columbia
$200

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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 Fund16 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsT Rowe Price Program for Charitable14 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 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 The Morgan Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2020-2023). 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: 11535 Pebblecreek Drive, Lutherville, MD, 21093. 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 52-1853976 · 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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