Maryland · Private foundation
L Franklin Purnell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $29k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $554k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations L Franklin Purnell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 5 | $29k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $32k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $34k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $31k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $33k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $31k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $28k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diakonia Inc | $108,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Coastal Hospice | $25,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Worcester County Gold Inc | $16,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Wor-Wic Community College Inc | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Atlantic General Hospital | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Worcester County Arts Council Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ocean City Museum Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry Hotel Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope4recovery Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Berlin Little League Inc | $500 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.
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: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Wilde Charitable Foundation · Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Bpoe 2645 · Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation · Synepuxent Post No 166 the American Legion Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About L Franklin Purnell Foundation
- How much does L Franklin Purnell Foundation give?
- L Franklin Purnell Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $29,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does L Franklin Purnell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (39%), Education (32%), Health (19%).
- Who are L Franklin Purnell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Diakonia Inc ($108k), Coastal Hospice ($25k), Worcester County Gold Inc ($16k).
- Does L Franklin Purnell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does L Franklin Purnell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as L Franklin Purnell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor, Humphreys Foundation Inc, Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc.
- Where is L Franklin Purnell Foundation based?
- L Franklin Purnell Foundation is based in MD.
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