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Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2024
41
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$478,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 45
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$70M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $801k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving36$3.4M19%
FY202341$4.3M27%
FY202234$4.3M24%
FY202145$4.5M44%
FY202045$3.6M42%
FY201929$4.1M31%
FY201834$3.9M26%
FY201737$3.9Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$5.8MEducation$5.2MCommunity Improvement$4.7MHealth$4.4MHuman Services$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.3MReligion$1.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
DE
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 96 grantees
All grantees of Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Civic Works Inc$4,221,14687%
Johns Hopkins University$3,597,42580%
Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc$2,408,480633%
Jewish Community Services Inc$993,20051%
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc$854,34488%
Center for Hope Inc$692,85168%
Benefits Data Trust$626,10061%
Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc$594,25065%
Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc$568,671513%
Baltimore Corps Inc$550,00032%
Moveable Feast Inc$544,48063%
Nami Metropolitan Baltimore Inc$490,000616%
Roca Inc$450,00041%
Shore Legal Access Inc$437,000714%
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc$412,50059%
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc$380,00030%
Mental Health Association of Maryland Inc$355,00043%
The Family Tree Inc$300,00034%
Maryland Dental Action Coalition Inc$300,000515%
Associated Catholic Charities Inc$260,00040%
B'More Clubhouse Inc$259,991518%
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge$250,00030%
Maryland Philanthropy Network$246,33052%
Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition Inc$245,000416%
The United Way of Central Maryland Inc$242,50070%
Strong City Baltimore Inc$242,00022%
Healthport Inc$225,00042%
Way Station Inc$200,00011%
Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc$200,00020%
St Agnes Foundation Inc$199,50725%
Food Research & Action Center$190,00031%
Community Assistance Network Inc$162,50012%
Marian House Inc$156,31132%
Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc$150,00010%
Legal Aid Bureau Inc$150,00011%
Humanim Inc$150,00010%
Baltimore Civic Fund Inc$150,0001n/a
Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc$150,00022%
Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc$150,00020%
Baltimore City Community College Foundation Inc$150,000126%
Franciscan Center Inc$140,00053%
Baltimore Crisis Response Inc$135,00021%
Harbor Hospital Inc$134,41320%
Keswick Community Health Inc$125,00025%
Fusion Partnership Inc$122,00051%
Kind Inc$115,00030%
Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc$106,00022%
Active Minds Inc$105,00023%
Chase Brexton Health Services Inc$100,00010%
Lifebridge Health Inc$100,00010%
Family and Children's Services of Centra$100,00021%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$100,00010%
La Clinica del Pueblo Inc$90,00020%
Southeast Community Development Corporation$85,000226%
Nami Maryland Inc$80,00025%
Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore$79,02910%
Northwest Hospital Center Inc$75,00010%
Carroll County Youth Service Bureau Inc$75,00011%
Center for Urban Families Inc$75,00011%
Mobile Medical Care Inc$75,00021%
Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc$75,00012%
Turnaround Inc$70,50012%
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc$70,00010%
Baltimore Bar Foundation Inc$66,924124%
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc$62,00021%
American Heart Association Inc$61,92710%
Ulman Foundation Inc$60,00021%
Charm City Care Connection Inc$60,00034%
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc$51,37530%
Fuel Fund of Maryland Inc$50,00011%
Next One Up Foundation Inc$50,00011%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$50,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50,00010%
The Samaritan Community Inc$50,00016%
International Rescue Committee INC$50,00010%
Sharebaby Inc$50,00014%
United States Fund for Unicef$50,00010%
Shepherds Clinic Inc$49,88622%
Adoptions Together Inc Dba as Paths for Families$48,04321%
Leadingage Maryland Inc$46,41823%
City of Refuge Baltimore Inc$40,00015%
Mercy Medical Center$40,00010%
Bay Hundred Community Volunteers Inc$40,000232%
Lori's Hands Inc$35,00016%
Farm Alliance of Baltimore Inc$35,000112%
Intersection of Change Inc$30,00013%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$25,00010%
Neighborhood Companions Inc$25,000110%
Uempower of Maryland Inc$20,00014%
Backyard Basecamp Inc$20,00012%
The Central Scholarship Bureau Inc$15,00011%
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Diocese of Md$10,0001n/a
Casa Inc$10,00010%
The Baltimore Station Inc$5,00010%
St Vincent de Paul of Baltimore Inc$5,00010%
My Life Foundation Inc$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCivic Works Inc: $4,221,146 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $3,597,425 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc: $2,408,480 over 6y, 33% of budgetJewish Community Services Inc: $993,200 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMaryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc: $854,344 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetCenter for Hope Inc: $692,851 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetBenefits Data Trust: $626,100 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetComprehensive Housing Assistance Inc: $594,250 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetPro Bono Counseling Project Inc: $568,671 over 5y, 13% of budgetBaltimore Corps Inc: $550,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMoveable Feast Inc: $544,480 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNami Metropolitan Baltimore Inc: $490,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetRoca Inc: $450,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetShore Legal Access Inc: $437,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetAsylee Women Enterprise Inc: $412,500 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: $380,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMental Health Association of Maryland Inc: $355,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetThe Family Tree Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMaryland Dental Action Coalition Inc: $300,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetAssociated Catholic Charities Inc: $260,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetB'More Clubhouse Inc: $259,991 over 5y, 18% of budgetLutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland Philanthropy Network: $246,330 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMaryland Consumer Rights Coalition Inc: $245,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetThe United Way of Central Maryland Inc: $242,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetStrong City Baltimore Inc: $242,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHealthport Inc: $225,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWay Station Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGilchrist Hospice Care Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Agnes Foundation Inc: $199,507 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $190,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Assistance Network Inc: $162,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMarian House Inc: $156,311 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSheppard Pratt Health System Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid Bureau Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHumanim Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBaltimore City Community College Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFranciscan Center Inc: $140,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBaltimore Crisis Response Inc: $135,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHarbor Hospital Inc: $134,413 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeswick Community Health Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $122,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKind Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDisability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: $106,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChase Brexton Health Services Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 94.

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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.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation IncMD86.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable

How much does Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable give?
Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable reported 36 grants totaling $3,386,899 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (18%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (15%).
Who are Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Civic Works Inc ($4.2M), Johns Hopkins University ($3.6M), Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc ($2.4M).
Does Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable 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 Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable based?
Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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