· Private foundation
The Loats Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREDERICK COMM COLLEGE FNDN INC | $60,000 |
| HOOD COLLEGE | $21,000 |
| FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FNDN INC | $20,000 |
| MCDANIEL COLLEGE | $13,000 |
| WEE FOLK SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| MOTHER SETON SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC OF FRED CO MD | $8,000 |
| CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| MAR LU RIDGE | $7,000 |
| CALVARY WEEKDAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HEARTLY HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| STEVENSON COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The Loats Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHOOD COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +31%
- FSFROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +182%
- MCMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SUSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2025 · $9k · revenue 0%
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 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.
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds HEARTLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mar-Lu-Ridge Camp and Retreat Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Nora Roberts Foundation · The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Loats Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Loats Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stevenson University: 0% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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