· Private foundation
F Struben Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MD | $15,000 |
| HARFORD LAND TRUST INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA TECH BAPTIST COLLEGIATE MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $2,500 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $500 |
| NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS | $500 |
| HOPE CENTER OF MARYLAND | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -47% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 25% 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
- UOUniversity of Md St Joes Med Ctr3× · 2019–2021 · $24k
- UOUniversity of MD St Joe's Medical Center2× · 2022–2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2021–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- UOUniversity of MD School of Medicineone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM MILL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +38%
- BCBaptist Collegiate Ministriesone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To augment volunteer fire fighting and emergency medical services provided to harford county, maryland.
To promote successful volunteer fire and emergency medical service operations within harford county, maryland.
Fire, Rescue & Emergency Medical Services
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
The purpose of the howard county medical center foundation shall be to preserve and enhance the services of howard county medical center.
Volunteer fire fighting
Providing fire protection to the surrounding communities.
Fire protection and rescue services.
Volunteer Fire Company
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 29 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 Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HARFORD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM MILL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company ↗
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: The Dresher Foundation Inc · Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization F Struben Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from F Struben Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Harford Land Trust Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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