· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSUZERAIN3× · 2023–2025 · $58k · revenue +26%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +46%- CBCelebration Barn Theater5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- SMSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -6%
- FOFund of Johns Hopkins Medicine-HD Researchone grant, 2021 · $3k
- FFFunds for Johns Hopkins Medicine-HD Researchone 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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
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.
Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.
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,…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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