Maryland · Private foundation
William E Cross Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $405k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $77,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 108
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations William E Cross Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 49 | $385k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $376k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $1.3M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 106 | $6.9M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 107 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $754k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| We Cross Charitable Foundation Inc | $6,990,224 | 2 | 98% |
| United Way of Frederick County Inc | $384,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Frederick Health Hospital Inc | $172,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Beyond Shelter Frederick Inc | $91,880 | 6 | 1% |
| Mission of Mercy Inc | $90,620 | 6 | 0% |
| Frederick Rescue Mission Inc | $82,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heartly House Inc | $69,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc | $63,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Neelsville Presbyterian Church | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Montgomery College Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William E Cross Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 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: The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · United Way of Frederick County Inc · We Cross Charitable Foundation Inc · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · Nora Roberts Foundation · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Inc · The George L Shields Foundation Inc · America's Charities
How this is measured
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About William E Cross Foundation Inc
- How much does William E Cross Foundation Inc give?
- William E Cross Foundation Inc reported 51 grants totaling $405,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 108 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William E Cross Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Religion (8%), Health (5%).
- Who are William E Cross Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: We Cross Charitable Foundation Inc ($7.0M), United Way of Frederick County Inc ($384k), Frederick Health Hospital Inc ($172k).
- Does William E Cross Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William E Cross Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William E Cross Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc, Ausherman Family Foundation, Delaplaine Foundation Inc.
- Where is William E Cross Foundation Inc based?
- William E Cross Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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