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The Arthur B Wilner Foundation Inc

Owings Mills, MD · EIN 82-3120843. Reported 92 grants totalling $197,086 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$197,086granted, 2021-2024
60organizations funded
48%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,237,381assets, 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 Arthur B Wilner 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 $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $750 and $2,500; the smallest was $96 and the largest $17,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
25 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
58 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 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
Mt Washington Pediatric HospitalBaltimore, MD$41,875442024
Beth ElPikesville, MD$21,800442024
BarcsBaltimore, MD$14,500332023
The AssociatedBaltimore, MD$8,800442024
Zero-the End of Prostate CancdrAlexandria, VA$8,500332024
Adelante Latina IncBaltimore, MD$6,000222024
Joshua M Freeman FoundationSelbyville, DE$6,000442024
The Greater Lewes FoundationLewes, DE$6,000222024
Johns HopkinsBaltimore, MD$5,500222024
Life Bridge HealthBaltimore, MD$5,000112024
Creative AllianceBaltimore, MD$4,500222024
ItinerisBaltimore, MD$4,425332023
The Nolan Robinson FoundationTimonium, MD$3,500442024
Days End Farm Horse RescueLisbon, MD$3,000112021
Play for PinkNew York, NY$3,000222024
Back River Restoration CommitteeEssex, MD$2,500112022
Farm AllianceBaltimore, MD$2,500222023
Maryvale Preparatory SchoolLutherville, MD$2,500112021
Waterfront Partnership of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$2,500112021
Weekend BackpacksTimonium, MD$2,500222024
Jcc of Greater BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$2,300222024
Baltimore Urban Baseball AssocBaltimore, MD$2,000332023
Blue Water BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$2,000112021
Corner Team IncBaltimore, MD$2,000112021
Eastern Region Assoc of Forest & Nature SchoolsGlen Arm, MD$2,000112021
Gbmc FoundationTowson, MD$2,000112021
Horizon Day CampBaltimore, MD$2,000112024
Writers in Baltimore SchoolsBaltimore, MD$2,000112024
Days End Horse Farm RescueWoodbine, MD$1,500222024
First Fruit FarmsFreeland, MD$1,500112024
Homeless Persons Representation ProjectBaltimore, MD$1,500112021
McvetBaltimore, MD$1,500112022
National Family Resiliency CenterColumbia, MD$1,500112021
Abilities NetworkTowson, MD$1,000112021
Arts CentricReisterstown, MD$1,000112021
Bea Gaddy Family CentersBaltimore, MD$1,000112022
Camp YavnehNewton Centre, MA$1,000112022
Don Brosco Cristo Rey High SchoolTakoma Park, MD$1,000112022
Famous FundTowson, MD$1,000112021
Grassroots Crisis Intervention CenterColumbia, MD$1,000112024
I Am MentalityBaltimore, MD$1,000112022
Massachusetts Down Syndrome CongressBurlington, MA$1,000112022
New York Restoration ProjectNew York, NY$1,000112021
Power 52 FoundationColumbia, MD$1,000112024
Small Town Stars TheatreThurmont, MD$1,000112021
Executive AllianceBaltimore, MD$880112024
Lower Shore Support ServicesMardela Springs, MD$750112022
Camps Airy & LouiseBaltimore, MD$500112022
Covenant GuildBaltimore, MD$500112021
CuresmaElk Grove Village, IL$500112021
Edward J Freidman FoundationBaltimore, MD$500112022
Jemicy SchoolOwings Mills, MD$500112023
Living Classroom FoundationBaltimore, MD$500112021
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeBoston, MA$500112022
Chesapeake CharitiesStevensville, MD$350112023
Alzheimer's AssociationChicago, IL$250112024
My Neighbors FoundationMonkton, MD$250112021
Baltimore Jewish Film FestivalBaltimore, MD$160112021
Family Crisis CenterBaltimore, MD$150112021
Girl Scout Troop 10410Baltimore, MD$96112021

18 of 60 (30%) 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 48%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Animal Welfare
6 grants
Arts & Culture
6 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Environment
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202132$55,381$1,500
202221$46,100$1,000
202317$48,625$1,500
202422$46,980$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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 86% 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
$169K
Delaware
$12K
Virginia
$8K
New York
$4K
Massachusetts
$2K
Illinois
$750

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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 $1,500. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Arthur B Wilner 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: Feddergarten 10096 Red Run Blvd, 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 82-3120843 · 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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