Maryland Family Network Inc
Baltimore, MD · EIN 52-1486702. Reported 147 grants totalling $83.3M to 47 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Maryland Family Network Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P40B) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 88% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $372,231. Half of what it reported fell between $266,662 and $759,707; the smallest was $7,305 and the largest $2,184,160. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,886,392 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Caroline County Board of Educ | Denton, MD | $6,799,906 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc | Halethorpe, MD | $5,953,089 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kennedy Krieger Education and Community Services Inc | Baltimore, MD | $4,941,809 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lower Shore Child Care Resource Ctr | Baltimore, MD | $4,840,914 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Maryland Rural Development Corporation | Annapolis, MD | $3,926,699 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Prince Georges Child Resource Center Inc | Largo, MD | $3,891,685 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc | Annapolis, MD | $3,516,831 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bon Secours Community Works Inc | Baltimore, MD | $3,207,467 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Talbot County Health Dept | Easton, MD | $2,839,275 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Abilities Network Inc | Towson, MD | $2,835,077 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Family Tree Inc | Baltimore, MD | $2,577,554 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Comptroller of the Treasury | Annapolis, MD | $2,554,803 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Services Inc | Gaithersburg, MD | $2,110,612 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mental Health Assoc of Frederck Cty | Frederick, MD | $2,087,507 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Promise Resource Center | Hughesville, MD | $1,999,321 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Downtown Baltimore Child Care Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,986,627 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Shore Up Inc | Salisbury, MD | $1,901,185 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Anne Arundel County Dss | Annapolis, MD | $1,804,084 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Director of Finance Howard County | Columbia, MD | $1,622,826 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| YMCA | Cumberland, MD | $1,481,346 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Treasurer of Frederick County | Frederick, MD | $1,479,306 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| County Commissioners of Kent County | Chestertown, MD | $1,474,809 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc | Westminster, MD | $1,429,606 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Queen Anne's County Board of Education | Centreville, MD | $1,349,980 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The United Way of Central Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,100,842 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Baltimore County Dss | Baltimore, MD | $958,772 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kingdom Kare | Odenton, MD | $912,135 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Life and Discovery Inc | Frederick, MD | $804,307 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shore Up Inc | Cumberland, MD | $727,207 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pact Helping Children With Special Needs Inc | Baltimore, MD | $695,978 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Fusion Partnerships Inc | Baltimore, MD | $402,627 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baltimore County Department of Social Services | Baltimore, MD | $362,430 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Family Services Incorporated | Altoona, PA | $343,827 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Apples for Children | Williamsport, MD | $312,790 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Anne Arundel Child Care Connections | Annapolis, MD | $303,880 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Montgomery County Child Care Resource and Referral Center | Rockville, MD | $215,095 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Chesapeake College | Wye Mills, MD | $130,771 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chesapeake College | Wye Mills, MD | $99,403 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mental Health Association of Maryland Inc | Lutherville, MD | $96,274 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pathways Inc | Hollywood, MD | $92,037 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Local Management Board of Allegany County Inc | Cumberland, MD | $76,957 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $50,686 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luna Family Support Services Inc | Hyattsville, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grace Medical Center Inc | Owings Mills, MD | $12,728 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lakeshore Learning Materials | Carson, CA | $8,227 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
35 of 47 (74%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc
IN SUPPORT OF OPERATING IN EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM IN BALTIMORE CITY - Caroline County Board of Education
In support of operating Early Head Start Programs in Caroline County - Kennedy Krieger
IN SUPPORT OF OPERATING AN EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM IN BALTIMORE CITY - Caroline County Board of Educ
IN SUPPORT OF OPERATING AN EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM IN CAROLINE COUNTY - Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake
IN SUPPORT OF OPERATINGAN EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM IN BALTIMORE CITY - Maryland Rural Development Corp
IN SUPPORT OF OPERATING IN EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM IN CECIL COUNTY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 35 | $16.8M | $362,430 |
| 2021 | 38 | $19.3M | $341,737 |
| 2022 | 36 | $23.1M | $435,765 |
| 2023 | 38 | $24.1M | $576,649 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $372,231 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Maryland Family Network Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1001 Eastern Avenue 2ND Floor, Baltimore, MD, 21202.
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