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The Concordia Foundation

Baltimore, MD · EIN 31-1486126. Reported 92 grants totalling $2,605,000 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$2,605,000granted, 2021-2024
49organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$19.9Massets, 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 Concordia Foundation 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 $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $32,500; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
37 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
46 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 and Up
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
Food Bank for New York City FoodNew York, NY$230,000442024
Environmental Defense FundNew York, NY$150,000442024
Neighbors for Clean AirPortland, OR$130,000222022
Oregon Food BankPortland, OR$127,500222022
Sylvester Manor Educational FarmShelter Is, NY$110,000442024
Oregon Environmental Council IncPortland, OR$100,000332023
Reading Team IncNew York, NY$90,000332024
The Go ProjectNew York, NY$90,000332024
West Harlem Environmental ActionNew York, NY$85,000332024
Springboard CollaborativePhiladelphia, PA$80,000332024
Bronxworks IncBronx, NY$75,000332024
Read AllianceNew York, NY$75,000332024
Reading PartnersNew York, NY$75,000332024
Dia Center for the Arts IncNew York, NY$70,000442024
Society of IllustratorsNew York, NY$70,000442024
Natural Resources DefenseNew York, NY$65,000222023
Ansonia Music Outreach OrganizationNew York, NY$60,000332024
Cascadia ActionSeatle, WA$58,000222022
Fund for Portland Public SchoolsPortland, OR$50,000112021
Jumpstart for Young Children IncWashington, DC$50,000222023
The Door - a Center for Alternatives IncNew York, NY$50,000112024
Early Steps IncNew York, NY$40,000112023
Foodbank of Monmouth and OceanToms River, NJ$40,000112021
Gods Love We Deliver IncNew York, NY$40,000222022
New York City Environmental JusticeBrooklyn, NY$40,000112023
Women in Need IncGreenville, TX$40,000442024
Beam Center IncBrooklyn, NY$30,000112024
Community Action Southold Town IncSouthold, NY$30,000112024
Cypress Hills Local Development CorporationBrooklyn, NY$30,000112024
Fund for Public Schools IncNew York, NY$30,000112021
Green LentsPortland, OR$30,000222022
Neighborhood House Inc New HampshirePortland, OR$30,000112022
New Jersey Conservation FoundationFar Hills, NJ$30,000112023
Solar OneNew York, NY$30,000112024
Camba IncBrooklyn, NY$25,000112021
Regional Plan Association IncNew York, NY$25,000112023
The Arts Council of PrincetonPrinceton, NJ$25,000112024
Community Food Bank of New JerseyEgg Harbor Township, NJ$21,250112024
Mercer Street FriendsTrenton, NJ$21,250112024
Brooklyn Botanic GardenBrooklyn, NY$20,000112024
Citymeals-on WheelsNew York, NY$20,000112021
Northeast Organic FarmingTitusville, NJ$20,000112022
VerdePortland, OR$20,000112021
New Avenues for YouthPortland, OR$19,500112022
City Growers IncBrooklyn, NY$15,000112024
Opal Environmental Justice OregonPortland, OR$15,000112021
Association for Cultural EquityNew York, NY$10,000112021
Portland State University FoundationPortland, OR$10,000112022
Volunteers of America - GreaterAlexandria, VA$7,500112021

22 of 49 (45%) 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 61%, across 3 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 58 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
14 grants
Arts & Culture
12 grants
Human Services
11 grants
Food & Nutrition
8 grants
Education
7 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Employment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202124$740,000$22,500
202223$640,000$25,000
202321$585,000$25,000
202424$640,000$27,500

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. 64% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$1.7M
Oregon
$532K
New Jersey
$158K
Pennsylvania
$80K
Washington
$58K
District of Columbia
$50K
Texas
$40K
Virginia
$8K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc24 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund23 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program23 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust15 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc14 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. 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 New York.
  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 Concordia Foundation'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: 400 E Pratt Street 200, Baltimore, MD, 21202. 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 31-1486126 · 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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