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Fitchett-Stick Foundation Inc

Bel Air, MD · EIN 52-0794438. Reported 83 grants totalling $81,049 to 46 organizations across tax years 2022-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$81,049granted, 2022-2024
46organizations funded
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$447,593assets, 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. Fitchett-Stick 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $125 and $1,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $21,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
58 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
23 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Calvert SchoolBaltimore, MD$39,200432024
Sugar Hill Historical MuseumSugar Hill, NH$6,050432024
Gilman SchoolBaltimore, MD$3,000332024
Gladwyne Free LibraryGladwyne, PA$2,800332024
Philadelphia Museum of ArtPhiladelphia, PA$2,600332024
South Kent SchoolSouth Kent, CT$2,500332024
Mount Gulian SocietyBeacon, NY$2,400332024
Society of the CincinnatiWashington, DC$2,000332024
Star Spangled Banner Flag HouseBaltimore, MD$2,000222024
Trinity Episcopal Church Long GreenGlen Arm, MD$2,000222024
Southwest Indian FoundationGallup, NM$1,734322024
American Red CrossLancaster, PA$1,000112023
Doctors Withour BordersHagerstown, MD$1,000112023
Gladwyne Fire CompanyGladwyne, PA$1,000332024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$1,000222024
Pa SPCAPhiladelphia, PA$1,000112023
Yale University - Lax AssociationNew Haven, CT$1,000222024
Phs - Pa Horticultural SocietyGreencastle, PA$962222024
Philadelphia OrchestraPhiladelphia, PA$900332024
Society of the Cincinnati - MarylandMt Victoria, MD$745222024
Yale University-Alumni FundNew Haven, CT$601222024
Henry Foundation for Botanical ResearchGladwyne, PA$500222024
John Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$500112022
Museum of the American RevolutionPhiladelphia, PA$500112023
Prager University FoundationOgden, UT$500112024
Salvation Army Philadelphia CorpsPhiladelphia, PA$500112023
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$350112022
Goucher CollegeBaltimore, MD$300332024
Kent Place SchoolSummit, NJ$300332024
Scottish Heritage USAPinehurst, NC$255112023
Judicial WatchWashington, DC$200112023
Zeta Psi Educational FoundationWaltham, MA$200222024
Macular Degeneration ResearchClarksburg, MD$152112023
The Heritage FoundationWashington, DC$150112023
Dav - Disabled American VeteransCincinnati, OH$125112023
Adf - Alliance Defending FreedomScottsdale, AZ$100112023
Flag House & Star SpangledBaltimore, MD$100112022
Hillsdale CollegeWashington, DC$100112023
Leldf - Law Enforcement Legal Defense FundMerrifield, VA$100112023
National Trust for Historic PreservationHagerstown, MD$100112023
Pafa - Pa Academy of Fine ArtsPhiladelphia, PA$100112023
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$100112023
USOWashington, DC$100112023
Zeta Psi Educational FoundationPearl River, NY$100112022
Acu - American Center for Law & JusticeWashington DC, DC$75112023
US Deputy Sheriff's AssociationMerrifield, VA$50112023

22 of 46 (48%) 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 64%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 1 grants to individuals totalling $12,880 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
20 grants
Arts & Culture
17 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
3 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202216$7,000$375
202344$43,640$350
202423$30,409$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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 62% of this one's giving went to organizations in Maryland. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Maryland
$50K
Pennsylvania
$12K
New Hampshire
$6K
Connecticut
$4K
District of Columbia
$3K
New York
$2K
New Mexico
$2K
Utah
$500

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 Fitchett-Stick Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 3019 Goat Hill Road, Bel Air, MD, 21015. 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 52-0794438 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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