· Private foundation
L Franklin Purnell Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOR WIC FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| DIAKONIA INC | $11,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD | $2,000 |
| COASTAL HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| HENRY HOTEL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 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
Backed again, and grew
- DIDIAKONIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +148%
- CHCOASTAL HOSPICE8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SPST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $2k
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -17%
- SUSTEVENSON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
The ocean city development corporation is dedicated to the revitalization of the downtown area of ocean city, maryland. programs are designed by the organization to formulate and implement long range development strategies for commercial,…
Provide quality compassionate holistic care to patients at home.
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
To provide hospice and bereavement care to patients and their families in pamlico and portions of beaufort and craven counties, nc
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
Provide medical and other suport services to patients and their families.
To make quality hospice care available to persons with life threatening illnesses, their families, and those affected by death and dying in our community; to advocate effectively for patient comfort, dignity, and choice; and to be…
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
The mission of webster memorial hospital is to provide excellent, high quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
To provide care and support for the terminally ill.
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 19 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization L Franklin Purnell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L Franklin Purnell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Worcester County Arts Council Inc: 89% of income from government
- Diakonia Inc: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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