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Frank E & Miriam Loveman

Owings Mills, MD · EIN 46-1662450. Reported 142 grants totalling $1,962,500 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,962,500granted, 2021-2024
51organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$11.5Massets, 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. Frank E & Miriam Loveman 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
23 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
66 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
32 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
Maryland New DirectionsBaltimore, MD$120,000442024
Child First Authority IncBaltimore, MD$115,000442024
Maryland Food BankBaltimore, MD$115,000442024
ChanaPikesville, MD$100,000442024
Enoch Pratt Free LibraryBaltimore, MD$100,000442024
B'nai Israel SynagogueBaltimore, MD$90,000442024
Center for HopeBaltimore, MD$80,000442024
Healthcare for the HomelessBaltimore, MD$80,000442024
Paul's Place IncBaltimore, MD$80,000442024
House of RuthBaltimore, MD$65,000442024
The Fuel Fund of MarylandBaltimore, MD$65,000332024
Comprehensive Housing Assistance IncBaltimore, MD$62,500332024
Cash Campaign of MarylandBaltimore, MD$55,000442024
AssociatedBaltimore, MD$50,000112023
Hillel InternationalWashington, DC$50,000222024
Light of Truth Center IncBaltimore, MD$50,000442024
University of Maryland Baltimore FoundationBaltimore, MD$50,000442024
Weekend Backpaks for Homeless KidsBaltimore, MD$50,000442024
Parks & People FoundationBaltimore, MD$45,000442024
Edward a Myerberg CenterBaltimore, MD$40,000442024
Roberta's HouseBaltimore, MD$40,000332024
Itineris - BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$35,000442024
Grace FoundationBaltimore, MD$30,000332023
Helping Up MissionBaltimore, MD$29,000332023
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - Orch KidsBaltimore, MD$27,000332024
Baltimore Museum of ArtBaltimore, MD$25,000442024
St Vincent De Paul of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$23,500332024
Baltimore Symphony OrchestraBaltimore, MD$22,000442024
Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound SchoolBaltimore, MD$20,000112024
The Maryland Zoo in BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$20,000222024
Turnaround IncBaltimore, MD$20,000112022
United Way of Central MaqrylandBaltimore, MD$20,000112022
The Family TreeBaltimore, MD$19,000442024
Damon Runyan Cancer Research FoundationNew York, NY$16,500442024
Next One Up FoundationBaltimore, MD$15,000222022
The Baltimore StationBaltimore, MD$15,000112021
The Loyola SchoolBaltimore, MD$15,000332024
Youth Empowered Society - YesBaltimore, MD$15,000112021
Kid's Chance of Maryland IncBaltimore, MD$14,500442024
Center for Urban FamiliesBaltimore, MD$12,500112022
Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound SchoolBaltimore, MD$10,000112023
Liberty Grace FoundationBaltimore, MD$10,000112024
Maryland School for the BlindBaltimore, MD$8,500442024
Black Lax IncBaltimore, MD$5,000112024
Blax Lax IncBaltimore, MD$5,000112023
Community Assistance Network IncBaltimore, MD$5,000112021
Hearing and Speech AgencyBaltimore, MD$5,000442024
Level the Playing FieldBaltimore, MD$5,000112023
Level the Playing FieldWashington, DC$5,000112024
The Maryland Book BankBaltimore, MD$5,000112021
Maryland Chapter Cystic Fibrosis FoundationCockeysville, MD$2,500112024

35 of 51 (69%) 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 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 68 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
21 grants
Education
12 grants
Arts & Culture
9 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202133$460,000$15,000
202237$517,500$12,500
202335$489,000$10,000
202437$496,000$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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 96% 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
$1.9M
District of Columbia
$55K
New York
$16K

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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.

Baltimore Community Foundation Inc25 shared recipientsThe United Way of Central Maryland Inc23 shared recipientsThe Abell Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund22 shared recipientsT Rowe Price Program for Charitable22 shared recipientsAssociated Jewish Charities of Baltimore21 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Frank E & Miriam Loveman'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: 10451 Mill Run Circle 800, 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 46-1662450 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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