Maryland · Private foundation
The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation
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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 107
- Grants FY2024
- 103
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $508,912
- Organizations funded a year
- 91 to 103
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $490k 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 | 102 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 103 | $2.4M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 103 | $2.5M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 102 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $2.1M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 103 | $2.0M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 91 | $1.9M | 36% |
| FY2017 | 97 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American University | $1,718,316 | 8 | 0% |
| Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc | $807,000 | 8 | 3% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $650,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Congregation Bnai Tzedek | $560,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Heifetz International Music Institute Inc | $422,500 | 8 | 6% |
| District of Columbia College Access Program | $375,000 | 5 | 1% |
| World Jewish Relief USA Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 21% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $287,332 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Medishare for Haiti Inc | $268,000 | 8 | 4% |
| American University Hillel Inc | $225,000 | 8 | 15% |
Show all 180 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 165 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation give?
- The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation reported 107 grants totaling $2,588,157 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 103 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Health (16%), International (13%).
- Who are The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American University ($1.7M), Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc ($807k), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($650k).
- Does The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation 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 The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Galena-Yorktown Foundation, The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation based?
- The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation is based in MD.
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