Maryland · Private foundation
Cordish Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 77
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Cordish Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $2.2M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $2.7M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $1.2M | 34% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $759k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 77 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stevenson University | $1,186,150 | 4 | 1% |
| Impactisrael Inc | $769,530 | 6 | 3% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $476,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc | $428,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Eutaw Place Non-Profit Corporation | $305,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Calvert School Incorporated | $220,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Thread Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $100,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Park School of Baltimore Inc | $77,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cordish Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cordish Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Cordish Family Foundation Inc give?
- Cordish Family Foundation Inc reported 42 itemized grants totaling $1,278,588, out of $1,470,088 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 77 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cordish Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (15%), International (12%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Cordish Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Stevenson University ($1.2M), Impactisrael Inc ($770k), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($477k).
- Does Cordish Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cordish Family Foundation Inc 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 Cordish Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, France-Merrick Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cordish Family Foundation Inc based?
- Cordish Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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