Maryland · Private foundation
Feather 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $407,364
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Feather Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 | 25 | $1.2M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $219k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $185k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $51k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $136k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $315k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School Inc | $544,469 | 6 | 2% |
| Gilman School Incorporated | $167,754 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $110,797 | 6 | 0% |
| Cylburn Arboretum Friends Inc | $100,360 | 5 | 1% |
| Roland Park Country School Inc | $75,872 | 5 | 0% |
| North Country School Inc | $69,463 | 5 | 0% |
| Church of the Redeemer | $64,238 | 6 | n/a |
| Irvine Natural Science Center Inc | $53,884 | 6 | 1% |
| Miss Porter's School Inc | $36,468 | 6 | 0% |
| Calvert School Incorporated | $32,327 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($656k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Feather Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Linehan Family Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust
How this is measured
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About Feather Foundation Inc
- How much does Feather Foundation Inc give?
- Feather Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $1,168,726 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Feather Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Youth Development (26%), Education (26%).
- Who are Feather Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School Inc ($544k), Gilman School Incorporated ($168k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($111k).
- Does Feather Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Feather 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 Feather Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, The Kahlert Foundation Inc.
- Where is Feather Foundation Inc based?
- Feather Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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