Selected Grants Made : 2022
Below is a sampling of grants awarded in 2022. Additional grantmaking activities may be reflected on the foundation's form 990-PF. This list, however, is representative of the grants approved by the board as a whole (exclusive of discretionary gifts) and is an accurate depiction of our priorities for the year. More information about our grants process, what we’re looking for, and how to apply is available on our Grants Page.
General Grants
Adoptions Together (Maryland) - $15,000, Multiyear General Operating Support: Adoptions Together is a child and family health and welfare agency that provides therapeutic support and education for children and their families, works to build healthy, lifelong connections between children and families, and provides advocacy for best practices in child welfare systems. Their programs strive to ensure that children of all ages have the opportunity to grow up in healthy, supportive and permanent families by addressing the issues of abuse, neglect and family stability.
Baltimore Community ToolBank (Baltimore City and surrounding areas, MD) - $18,000, Multiyear General Operating Support: The Baltimore Community ToolBank serves hundreds of community-based organizations annually with a wealth of tools and resources. In addition to their tool lending program, the ToolBank intentionally connects partners to each other in order to share knowledge, skills and resources to make our communities vibrant.
Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition, fiscally sponsored by Maryland Philanthropy Network (Baltimore, MD) - $15,000: Unrestricted support for the continuing start-up and scaling costs of the Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition, a collaboration of over 60 community organizations working to close the digital divide in Baltimore through device distribution, increased access to affordable internet, and advocacy.
Baltimore Safe Haven, $10,000: Unrestricted support for Baltimore Safe Haven's outreach to the LGBTQ+ community in Baltimore, providing links to essential services such as healthcare, harm reduction, HIV prevention, and housing.
Banner Neighborhoods Community Corporation (Baltimore, MD) - $7,500, Multiyear General Operating Support: Banner Neighborhoods promotes resident-based leadership, neighborhood pride and stability, and provides direct services that contribute to the overall viability of parts of East and Southeast communities in Baltimore City. Second installment of a two-year, $15,000 commitment.
CASH Campaign of Maryland (Maryland) - $10,000, Multi-year General Operating Support: CASH Campaign of Maryland provides the financial capability of low-to-moderate income families through direct service, advocacy, and systems change.
Community Wealth Builders, fiscally sponsored by Maryland Philanthropy Network (Baltimore, MD) - $20,000, Multi-year General Operating Support: Unrestricted support for Community Wealth Builders’s mission to foster more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable neighborhood economies by promoting community wealth building models and strategies across Baltimore City.
Empowered to Live (Frederick, MD) - $15,000, General Operating Support: Unrestricted support Empowered to Live’s first pilot program, Project GUIDE: a 14-week pre-apprenticeship program that offers youth ages 16–24 job readiness and technical skills training and paid internship opportunities with local businesses.
Frederick County Health Care Coalition (Frederick, MD) - $30,000, General Operating Support: Unrestricted support for work to achieve Health Equity in Frederick County through the Local Health Improvement Planning Process, awarded as part of a match of ARPA funds raised by the organization.
Impact Hub Baltimore, fiscally sponsored by Maryland Philanthropy Network (Baltimore, MD) - $15,000, General Operating Support: Impact Hub supports and connects a community of Baltimore changemakers by providing an inspiring workspace and innovative programming to scale and sustain their social impact to build an innovative local economy that advances equity and opportunity.
Interfaith Housing Alliance (Frederick, MD) - $10,000, General Operating Support: Unrestricted support for Interfaith Housing Alliance's work to create affordable housing opportunities for community members and design individualized pathways to financial stability.
Life Asset, Inc (Washington, DC, Virginia, and Maryland) - $10,000, Multiyear Program Specific-Support for Maryland Programs: Life Asset's mission is to help alleviate poverty in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia by empowering people through affordable financial products, services, and education, thereby promoting self-help and self-respect and expanding social and economic opportunities for low-income individuals. Funding supported the expansion of Life Assets’ Microloan and Financial Training Program to more low-income individuals in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, and Frederick County, creating financial self-sufficiency through small business ownership.
The Light House (Annapolis, Maryland) - $10,000, Multiyear General Operating Support: The Light House is both a facility and a program. Their mission is to help rebuild lives with compassion by providing shelter and services to prevent homelessness and empower people as they transition toward employment, housing and self-sufficiency.
Maryland Center on Economic Policy (Maryland) - $20,000, Multiyear General Operating Support: The Maryland Center on Economic Policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy. MDCEP engages in research, analysis, strategic communications, public education, and grassroots alliances promoting robust debate and greater public awareness of the policy choices Maryland residents face. An additional grant of $2,000 was made to support MDCEP’s 2022 Policy Summit.
Maryland Citizens Health Initiative Education Fund (Maryland) - $10,000, Multi-Year General Operating Support: The Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative established the Maryland Health Care for All! Coalition in 1999 with a mission of educating Marylanders about feasible and effective ways to expand access to quality affordable health insurance for all residents of our state. The Health Care for All! Coalition is the state’s largest health care consumer coalition with hundreds of diverse organizational members, including faith, health, community, labor, and business groups from across the state.
Maryland Hunger Solutions (Maryland) - $20,000, Multi-Year General Operating Support: Through outreach, advocacy, technical assistance, research, public education, and collaboration, Maryland Hunger Solutions seeks to end hunger, improve nutrition, and promote the well-being of Marylanders in need by ensuring that federal nutrition programs are used the greatest extent possible, and that schools and program providers have access to federal funds to serve food that mets high nutrition standards.
Maryland New Directions (Baltimore, MD) - $7,500, General Operating Support: Maryland New Directions offers job seekers in Baltimore City intensive employment training, industry recognized skill certification opportunities, and holistic supportive services.
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (Baltimore, MD) - $10,000, General Operating Support: Unrestricted support to continue MVLS' efforts to address systemic barriers to preserve homeownership for Black homeowners and to stop wealth extraction in communities of color in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Mental Health Association of Frederick County (Frederick, MD) - $7,500, General Operating Support: General opeating support to eliminate systemic barriers by insuring that a persons inability to pay for mental health treatment isn't a roadblock to receiving care, coordinating services with other providers, and advocating for policy changes.
National Adoption Association (Maryland-based/National) - $10,000: Unrestricted support for NAA's work eliminating disparity and disproportionality from the foster care system by examining bias, discriminatory policies and other systemic barriers in foster care and raises the consciousness of individual practitioners to apply new learnings with the children and families they serve.
Project Own (Baltimore, MD) - $10,000, General Operating Support: Project Own builds innovative solutions to equalize access to property wealth creation for Black Americans, starting with homeownership.
Small Grants
Our Small Grants program, for grant amounts up to $5,000, focuses on one of three priority areas: (1) leadership development, (2) addressing the harms caused by fiscal sponsorships and/or costs associated with changing fiscal sponsors or incorporating as an independent 501(c)(3), and (3) supporting work within organizations around internal diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Baltimore Action Legal Team (Baltimore, MD) - $2,920: Support for BALT’s transition from fiscal sponsorship to an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Baltimore Safe Haven (Baltimore, MD) - $5,000: General operating support for Baltimore Safe Haven’s work to provide at-risk TLGBQIA people in Baltimore City with opportunities to transform their lives.
Delaplaine Arts Center (Frederick, MD) - $1,500: Leadership development support to host a deaf/hard of hearing training workshop for staff to improve services to our community.
Everyman Theatre (Baltimore, MD) - $5,000: Leadership development support for Everyman Theatre's efforts to provide ongoing equity training to its staff, board, and resident artists.
Maryland Association of Student Councils (Maryland) - $5,000: General operating support for Maryland Association of Student Councils' recently transition to an independent 501c3 organization to offer opportunities for students to develop leadership skills.
Maryland Philanthropy Network (Maryland) - $5,000: Leadership development support to provide executive coaching and a 360º review process to inform that coaching for the new President of Maryland Philanthropy Network in 2022.
Neighborhood Design Center (Baltimore, MD) - $4,500: Organizational and leadership development support to continue the organization’s ongoing work in diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
Public Justice Center (Baltimore, MD) - $5,000: Leadership development support for engagement with Co-Lab Consulting for professional development to further operationalize a commitment to race equity and anti-racism in both external advocacy and internal practices.
The Be.Org (Baltimore, MD) - $5,000: Operating support to expand service offerings to Foster STEM Education and Career Pathways for Baltimore Youth
Wide Angle Youth Media (Baltimore, MD) - $4,900: Organizational and leadership development support for management coaching.