Maryland · Private foundation
William S Abell Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2024
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 71 to 94
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $78M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations William S Abell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $463k 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 | 80 | $2.7M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $3.1M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 92 | $3.2M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $2.5M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $2.8M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $1.8M | 83% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jubilee Housing Inc | $750,880 | 5 | 8% |
| A Wider Circle Inc | $575,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Jubilee Association of Maryland Inc | $567,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Pathway Homes Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Calvary Women's Services Inc | $315,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington | $305,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $303,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Mamatoto Village Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 3% |
| House of Ruth | $300,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Spirit Club Foundation Inc | $290,000 | 5 | 75% |
Show all 199 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William S Abell Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 178 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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Walter a Bloedorn Foundation
How this is measured
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About William S Abell Foundation Inc
- How much does William S Abell Foundation Inc give?
- William S Abell Foundation Inc reported 81 grants totaling $2,762,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 94 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does William S Abell Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Human Services (18%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are William S Abell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Jubilee Housing Inc ($751k), A Wider Circle Inc ($575k), The Jubilee Association of Maryland Inc ($568k).
- Does William S Abell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William S Abell Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William S Abell Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is William S Abell Foundation Inc based?
- William S Abell Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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