Maryland · Private foundation
Arness Family Charitable Foundation
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.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $347k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Arness Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $21k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $20k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $15k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $14k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $14k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sovereign Military Order of Malta Federal Association USA | $16,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Club Preservation Foundation | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor | $4,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Miriam's Kitchen | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $2,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Little Sisters of the Poor of Washington DC Inc | $2,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Brightfocus Foundation | $1,900 | 5 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Arness Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Arness Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Arness Family Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $21,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Arness Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Human Services (31%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are Arness Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sovereign Military Order of Malta Federal Association USA ($17k), Metropolitan Club Preservation Foundation ($5k), Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ($4k).
- Does Arness Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arness Family Charitable Foundation 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 Arness Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Arness Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Arness Family Charitable Foundation is based in MD.
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