The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
How to apply
Deadlines
Restrictions
Send applications to
Not publishedWESTMINSTER, MD, 21157The filing names a person as the application contact. We publish role-based contacts (a committee, an office, a shared inbox) but not named individuals.a phone number for applications is on the filing. On the filing, not published; see “How to reach them” for any published channel.
Application policy: Accepts applications, as stated on the FY2024 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 6 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2019 to FY2024).
On its FY2024 Form 990-PF return this foundation listed grants to 30 named recipients.
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
This is a count from past returns. It does not say the foundation will consider a new request. How it is counted: names are compared as written on the returns, without "The" at the start, without endings such as "Inc" or "LLC", and without spaces and punctuation. A recipient also counts as already listed when our records link it to the same organization as an earlier recipient, or when its name is almost the same as an earlier name (a trigram similarity of 0.8 or more, where 1 means identical). The state on the grant row is not compared. Grants that the foundation marked as paid to an individual, such as a scholarship, are left out of both numbers, and no count is shown when most of its grants are marked that way. A person whom the foundation did not mark as an individual is still counted as a recipient. A recipient can still look new when its name is written very differently from year to year, and two different recipients with almost the same name can be counted as one.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Assets
$7.7M
IRS master file
Income
$2.1M
IRS master file
Revenue
—Not available
IRS master file
No parsed e-filed return is on record for this organization yet, so year-by-year financials are not available.
Asset, income and revenue figures come from the IRS master file (the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File), a coarse annual extract. Year-by-year figures appear once the organization's e-filed returns are in the database.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Education$149K · 15
Food and agriculture$75K · 8
International affairs$30K · 3
Arts and culture$27.5K · 4
Philanthropy and grantmaking$10K · 1
Environment$4,610 · 1
Where recipients are
PA$535K · 64
DE$318K · 31
MD$282K · 30
VA$105K · 19
WV$105K · 12
TX$90K · 8
NY$85K · 8
IA$82.5K · 9
Based on the 21% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Grants paid
223 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY PARK, PA
AGRICULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP
$10,000
2021
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Travis Hastings
CHAIRPERSON
2.00
$2,349
Brian Rosati
HFC EMPLOYEE/VICE CHAIR
2.00
$0
Laura Heilinger
OFFICER (UNTIL 6/2024)
2.00
$818
John Wheeler
SECRETARY/TREASURER
8.00
$5,796
Julie Bolyard
OFFICER
2.00
$2,014
Gail Yeiser
OFFICER
2.00
$3,758
Darrell Curtis
OFFICER
2.00
$3,387
Kevin Grim
OFFICER
2.00
$1,746
Sharon Mcclellan
OFFICER (FROM 7/2024)
2.00
$1,106
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation
HAVRE DE GRACE, MD
AGRICULTURE EDUCATION
$10,000
2019
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY PARK, PA
AGRICULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP
$10,000
2023
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYAMES, IA
AGRICULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP
$10,000
2020
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