Maryland · Private foundation
Van Strum Foundation 8833023
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.
- $395k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Van Strum Foundation 8833023 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 18 | $390k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $387k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $362k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $351k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $400k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $189k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $183k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $161k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Channel Marker Foundation Inc | $580,000 | 6 | 73% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $207,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Channel Marker Inc | $172,000 | 3 | 2% |
| McKenzie River Trust | $155,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/A Chesapeake Music | $102,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Modern Warrior Live | $86,000 | 5 | 10% |
| For All Seasons Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Berry Center Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Land Institute | $50,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($677k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Van Strum Foundation 8833023 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Llandaff Family Trust · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Dock Street Foundation · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peck Family Foundation Inc · Talbot County Arts Council Inc
How this is measured
About Van Strum Foundation 8833023
- How much does Van Strum Foundation 8833023 give?
- Van Strum Foundation 8833023 reported 19 grants totaling $395,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Van Strum Foundation 8833023 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Health (29%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Van Strum Foundation 8833023's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Channel Marker Foundation Inc ($580k), The Trustees of the Smith College ($207k), Channel Marker Inc ($172k).
- Does Van Strum Foundation 8833023 fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Van Strum Foundation 8833023 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 Van Strum Foundation 8833023?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Llandaff Family Trust, Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello.
- Where is Van Strum Foundation 8833023 based?
- Van Strum Foundation 8833023 is based in MD.
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