Maryland · Public charity
Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn
Bright Minds improves education outcomes for all Howard County public school students by bringing together community support to address resource & opportunity gaps faced by students and educators
- $249k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $129k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $45,355
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $78,804
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $244k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 3 | $129k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $280k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $26k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard County Public School System | $519,318 | 7 | n/a |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $112,825 | 4 | 0% |
| Pearl Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Comcast Internet Essentials | $5,118 | 1 | n/a |
| Kindness Pantry | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tau Pi Foundation Fund Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Maryland Congress of Parents & Teachers Inc Showell Elem Sch PTA | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A-Ok Mentoring Tutoring Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn
- How much does Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn give?
- Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn reported 3 itemized grants totaling $129,277, out of $248,974 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Human Services (1%), Philanthropy (1%).
- Who are Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Howard County Public School System ($519k), The Dollywood Foundation ($113k), Pearl Foundation Inc ($7k).
- Does Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn based?
- Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn is based in MD.
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