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Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$370k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
39
Grants FY2024
37
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
36 to 39
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$17k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving39$370k8%
FY202337$283k8%
FY202237$226k14%
FY202139$200k36%
FY202036$135kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$476kHuman Services$189kReligion$126kHousing & Shelter$117kHealth$109kFood & Nutrition$79kPhilanthropy$65kEmployment$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington Jesuit Academy$110,0006n/a
San Miguel School Inc$90,0006n/a
Holy Cross Health Foundation Inc$85,00061%
Washington School for Girls$67,00050%
The Catholic Charities Foundation of the Archdiocese of Washington$54,00051%
Some Inc$39,00060%
Friendship Place$37,00060%
Central Union Mission$36,00060%
Martha's Table Inc$36,00060%
Bread for the City Inc$35,00060%
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All grantees of Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington Jesuit Academy$110,0006n/a
San Miguel School Inc$90,0006n/a
Holy Cross Health Foundation Inc$85,00061%
Washington School for Girls$67,00050%
The Catholic Charities Foundation of the Archdiocese of Washington$54,00051%
Some Inc$39,00060%
Friendship Place$37,00060%
Central Union Mission$36,00060%
Martha's Table Inc$36,00060%
Bread for the City Inc$35,00060%
House of Ruth$33,00060%
Little Sisters of the Poor of Washington DC Inc$29,00060%
Gonzaga College High School$27,5005n/a
Calvary Women's Services Inc$20,00060%
A Wider Circle Inc$19,00050%
St Coletta of Greater Washington Inc$18,00050%
Black Student Fund$10,00051%
Higher Achievement Program Inc$10,00050%
Community of Hope$8,00040%
Rebuilding Together Inc$7,50020%
The Shepherd Foundation Ltd$5,00011%
Jubilee Jumpstart$4,00030%
Iona Senior Services$4,00010%
Alexandria Country Day School Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($427k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHoly Cross Health Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWashington School for Girls: $67,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Catholic Charities Foundation of the Archdiocese of Washington: $54,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSome Inc: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Place: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Union Mission: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMartha's Table Inc: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBread for the City Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of Ruth: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor of Washington DC Inc: $29,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCalvary Women's Services Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetA Wider Circle Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Coletta of Greater Washington Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Student Fund: $10,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHigher Achievement Program Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity of Hope: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shepherd Foundation Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIona Senior Services: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlexandria Country Day School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Truist Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund

How much does Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund give?
Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund reported 39 grants totaling $369,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Human Services (16%), Religion (10%).
Who are Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Washington Jesuit Academy ($110k), San Miguel School Inc ($90k), Holy Cross Health Foundation Inc ($85k).
Does Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area.
Where is Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund based?
Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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