Maryland · Private foundation
Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $145k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 26 | $135k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $93k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $130k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $142k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $140k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $116k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $132k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc | $164,850 | 8 | 1% |
| Hope Connections for Cancer Support Inc | $60,400 | 6 | 1% |
| Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc | $52,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Matan Inc | $43,400 | 8 | 2% |
| Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life at University of Md | $29,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Support Services Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| So What Else Inc | $23,800 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Interfaith Works | $14,900 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($330k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation 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: The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · David S Stone Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation with peer funders
About Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation
- How much does Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation give?
- Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $144,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Religion (21%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc ($165k), Hope Connections for Cancer Support Inc ($60k), Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc ($52k).
- Does Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation, Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation based?
- Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation is based in MD.
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