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Ethel M Looram Foundation Inc

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.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$127kEnvironment$112kArts & Culture$80kCrime & Legal$58kHealth$56kInternational$32kReligion$31kAnimals$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$1,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Suzerian Capital Defense$21,500
Funds of Johns Hopkins Medicine$10,000
Southern Environmental Law Center$5,000
Celebration Barn Theater$5,000
Ralston College$5,000
St Paul's School$4,000
Middle East Children's Alliance$4,000
Savannah Music Theatre$4,000
Miss Porter's School$3,500
University of Rochester$3,500
Trustees of Princeton University$3,500
Village School of North Bennington$3,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$3,000
St John Baptist Catholic Church$3,000
Doctors Without Borders$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Friends of Niger: $1k → 10%Suzerian Capital Defense: $22k → 11%Rain for the Sahel and Sahara: $1k → 5%Friends of Niger: $1k → 10%Suzerian Capital Defense: $21k → 11%Rain for the Sahel and Sahara: $1k → 5%Friends of Niger: $1k → 10%Rain for the Sahel and Sahara: $1k → 5%Friends of Niger: $1k → 10%Rain for the Sahel and Sahara: $1k → 5%Rain for the Sahel and Sahara: $1k → 5%Suzerian Capital Defense: $16k → 11%Rain for the Sahel and Sahara: $1k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
SC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$582k · 79 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

79 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
23

Total granted

$582k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+40%

Still filing today

56%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • S
    SUZERAIN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $58k · revenue +26%
  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +46%
  • CB
    Celebration Barn Theater
    5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • SM
    SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • FO
    Fund of Johns Hopkins Medicine-HD Research
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • FF
    Funds for Johns Hopkins Medicine-HD Research
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
10
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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11
The Potomac Conservancy Inc

Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.

Environment
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is St James Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 111 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $51,666 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $27,667 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERFunds For John Hopkins Medicine: $16,000 · OtherTrustees of Princeton University: $11,833 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $11,500 · OtherPAUL'S PLACE INC: $12,000 · Other+65 more: $209,834 · Other+65 moreST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $20,833 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOO…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $15,833 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF R…MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $12,833 · EducationMISS PORTER'S S…THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON: $11,000 · EducationTHE VILLAGE SCH…John G McCullough Free Library Inc: $10,000 · EducationJohn G McCullou…GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $6,000 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL I…Ralston College Inc: $5,000 · EducationRalston College…NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationSUZERAIN: $57,833 · Human ServicesSUZERAINRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $6,333 · Human ServicesRAIN FOR TH…Friends of Niger Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesFriends of …CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAK…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $9,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WIL…RE SOURCES: $9,000 · EnvironmentRE SOURCE…PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $6,000 · EnvironmentPINELANDS…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $5,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST…FOREVER MARYLAND INC: $4,500 · EnvironmentFOREVER M…RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN H…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Environment+2 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentCelebration Barn Theater: $25,999 · Arts & CultureCelebrati…BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE…BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE…SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH …CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER ST…CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $11,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $6,000 · Health
Other$340,500Education$85,999Human Services$68,166Environment$56,000Arts & Culture$55,999International$20,000Health$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUZERAIN: $57,833 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $27,667 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCelebration Barn Theater: $25,999 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $20,833 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $15,833 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $12,833 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJohn G McCullough Free Library Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $9,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRE SOURCES: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $6,333 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES ACADEMY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRalston College Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER MARYLAND INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Niger Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BRANCH SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SUZERAIN ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Celebration Barn Theater ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON ↗
  • Who funds John G McCullough Free Library Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Ralston College Inc ↗

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Fancy Hill Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · LAiglon Fund · T Rowe Price Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ethel M Looram Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ethel M Looram Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • Raritan Headwaters Association: 94% of income from government
  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Village School of North Bennington: 9% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 111 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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