Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Towson, Maryland

74
foundations with a Towson address
$46.9M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
19
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 74 foundations that gave a Towson, Maryland address on their tax filing — 71 private foundations and 3 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $46.9 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 19 of them (26%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Towson foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 74 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Towson, Maryland
The John J Leidy Foundation IncAccepts$7,500$940,157$2,500–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gordon Croft Foundation IncAccepts$5,000$497,174$50–$154,770FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Kathryn Ames Foundation IncAccepts$15,000$466,810$7,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Israel & Mollie Myers FoundationAccepts$2,000$437,984$49–$121,100FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dr & Mrs James FrenkilAccepts$50,000$241,000$1,000–$130,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kent Family Foundation IncAccepts$2,000$151,500$500–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Milton & Libbey Davis Foundation IncAccepts$15,000$145,500$2,500–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charlie and Del Major Foundation IncAccepts$9,750$137,000$500–$40,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Gay Wise Foundation IncAccepts$2,500$104,300$1,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Thomas W Bradley Foundation IncAccepts$7,500$85,000$5,000–$15,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Galanthus Foundation IncAccepts$10,000$67,657$1,657–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Carson-Etheridge FoundationincAccepts$2,000$53,750$750–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ernest and Meta OppenheimerAccepts$5,400$50,100$1,800–$21,700FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Zechman Foundation IncAccepts$8,000$47,000$2,000–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Theresa F Truschel Charitable FoundationAccepts$2,000$33,000$1,000–$26,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ira J Basler Jr and Mary K Basler FoundationAccepts$10,000$26,000$6,000–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Edelman Family FoundationAccepts$25,778$25,778—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Optimist Club of Loch Raven Maryland Foundation IncAccepts$500$20,550$200–$9,750FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Daniel Joseph Foundation IncAccepts$1,000$6,600$600–$4,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Frank & Kathleen Blair & Christine Thalheimer Foundation IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$94,148Over $5k only$91,195$90,195–$98,100FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ravens Roost 50 Foundation for Families IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$5,858Over $5k only$37,987One amountFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Mt Moriah Lodge Charitable Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated$10,000Over $5k only$23,000One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Hackerman Foundation IncInvitation only$17,500$12.3M$500–$4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Osprey Foundation IncInvitation only$150,000$6.1M$14,000–$790,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Orokawa Foundation IncInvitation only$50,000$5.8M$1,000–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

49 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.