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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 52-1693184

Lockhart Vaughan Foundation

A private foundation in Baltimore, MD. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 78 grants and $2.7 million paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Kate Rawson Powell
1600 West 41st Street Suite 700
Baltimore, MD 21211
(410) 837-9400
Form and materials
Please go to our website, lockhartv.org.
Deadlines
Please go to our website, lockhartv.org.
Restrictions
Please go to our website, lockhartv.org.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $2,711,200

    Grants listed
    78
    Assets, end of year
    $38,626,311

  • Tax year 2024

    $2,770,689

    Grants listed
    86
    Assets, end of year
    $37,451,594

  • Tax year 2023

    $1,653,798

    Grants listed
    66
    Assets, end of year
    $37,562,249

  • Tax year 2022

    $1,897,000

    Grants listed
    74
    Assets, end of year
    $38,681,612

  • Tax year 2021

    $2,052,462

    Grants listed
    81
    Assets, end of year
    $40,442,659

  • Tax year 2020

    $1,827,229

    Grants listed
    85
    Assets, end of year
    $29,308,223

  • Tax year 2019

    $1,744,951

    Grants listed
    69
    Assets, end of year
    $30,621,633

  • Tax year 2018

    $1,764,946

    Grants listed
    62
    Assets, end of year
    $30,972,779

Grants paid in 2025

78 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Park School of Baltimore IncBaltimore, MD

    Environment: solar array

    $176,522
  2. EarthjusticeSan Francisco, CA

    Environment

    $75,000
  3. Environmental Defense FundNew York, NY

    Environment: orphaned oil wells

    $75,000
  4. Thread IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective, school-based after-school programs

    $75,000
  5. Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods Hole, MA

    Environment : glider trips to gather data about acidity of gulf stream

    $75,000
  6. Archdiocese of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD

    Education: promote school choice for baltimore students and parents

    $60,000
  7. Teach for America - BaltimoreBaltimore, MD

    Education: support the recruitment, training of able instructional leaders for public schools

    $60,000
  8. Audubon Mid-AtlanticBaltimore, MD

    Environment: community-centered forest restoration in two baltimore city parks

    $50,000
  9. Blue Water BaltimoreBaltimore, MD

    Environment: support efforts to improve the chesapeake bay and its watersheds in baltimore

    $50,000
  10. Center for Climate Change CommunicationFairfax, VA

    Environment

    $50,000
  11. Chesapeake Bay FoundationAnnapolis, MD

    Environment: support efforts in baltimore to improve the chesapeake bay and its watersheds

    $50,000
  12. Children's Scholarship Fund BaltimoreBaltimore, MD

    Education: promote school choice for baltimore students and parents

    $50,000
  13. Conservation Law FoundationBoston, MA

    Environment

    $50,000
  14. Cristo Rey Jesuit High SchoolBaltimore, MD

    Education: promote school choice for baltimore students and parents

    $50,000
  15. GENERATION180Charlottesvle, VA

    Environment: electrify our schools MD

    $50,000
  16. Maryland Climate PartnersBaltimore, MD

    Environment : sub general fund

    $50,000
  17. Modern Classrooms Project IncWashington, DC

    Education: support the recruitment, training, and mentoring of able instructional leaders for public schools

    $50,000
  18. Parity Baltimore IncorporatedBaltimore, MD

    Education: vacant housing initiative

    $50,000
  19. Re-Build Metro IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: vacant housing initiative

    $50,000
  20. St James Development Corporation IncBaltimore, MD

    Environment: support greening efforts in baltimore that are visible to the wider community

    $50,000
  21. Strong Schools MarylandBaltimore, MD

    Education: baltimore children will have access to a quality publiceducation in pre-k - 8th grade

    $50,000
  22. Middle Grades PartnershipBaltimore, MD

    Education : sub summer learning

    $45,000
  23. Baltimore Symphony OrchestraBaltimore, MD

    Education: orchkids. Support cost-effective, school-based after-school programs

    $40,000
  24. Bridges Baltimore IncBaltimore, MD

    Education : sub summer learning

    $40,000
  25. City Teaching AllianceBaltimore, MD

    Education: support the recruitment, training and mentoring of able instructional leaders for public schools

    $40,000
  26. Community Law CenterBaltimore, MD

    Community development: support organizations that provide technical assistance and enhance the capabilities of groups that are working for community development in baltimore.

    $40,000
  27. KIPP BaltimoreBaltimore, MD

    Education: support programs that challenge motivated students in public schools

    $40,000
  28. TNTP Inc - Baltimore City Teaching ResidencyNew York, NY

    Education: support the recruitment and training of able instructional leaders for public schools

    $40,000
  29. Collegebound FoundationBaltimore, MD

    Education: support programs that challenge motivated students in baltimores public schools

    $35,000
  30. Enoch Pratt Free LibraryBaltimore, MD

    Education: branch improvement fund

    $35,000
  31. Ingenuity Project IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: support programs that challenge motivated students in baltimore's public schools.

    $35,000
  32. Sierra Club FoundationOakland, CA

    Environment

    $35,000
  33. Success for All FoundationBaltimore, MD

    Education: literacy intervention for baltimore city school children

    $35,000
  34. Union of Concerned ScientistsCambridge, MA

    Environment

    $35,000
  35. Baltimore BannerBaltimore, MD

    Environment: support environmental journalism

    $30,000
  36. Baltimore Tree Trust IncBaltimore, MD

    Environment: support greening efforts that are visible to the wider community

    $30,000
  37. Building StepsBrooklandvl, MD

    Education: support programs that challenge motivated students in public schools

    $30,000
  38. Let's Go Boys and Girls IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective, school-based after-school programs

    $30,000
  39. Maryland Alliance of Public Charter SchoolsBaltimore, MD

    Education: promote school choice for baltimore students and parents

    $30,000
  40. Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective, school-based after school programs

    $25,000
  41. Central Maryland Transportation AllianceBaltimore, MD

    Community development: support organizations that have a record of attracting financial investments for neighborhood revitalization efforts

    $25,000
  42. Enoch Pratt Free LibraryBaltimore, MD

    Education: emergent literacy program. Support childhood literacy in the very earliest years.

    $25,000
  43. Friends of the Jones FallsBaltimore, MD

    Environment: support efforts in baltimore to improve the chesapeake bay and its watersheds

    $25,000
  44. Helping Oppressed People Excel Hope BaltimoreBaltimore, MD

    Other

    $25,000
  45. ImentorBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective after school programs

    $25,000
  46. Leveling the Playing Field IncWashington, DC

    Education: support cost-effective after-school programs

    $25,000
  47. Living Classrooms FoundationBaltimore, MD

    Education: early childhood education program

    $25,000
  48. Nature SacredBaltimore, MD

    Environment: support greening efforts that are visible to the wider community

    $25,000
  49. Next One UpBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective after-school programs

    $25,000
  50. Rails to Trails ConservancyWashington, DC

    Community development: advancement of chinquapin run park trail and baltimore greenway

    $25,000
  51. Save the SoundincNew Haven, CT

    Environment

    $25,000
  52. Springboard CollaborativePhiladelphia, PA

    Education: sub summer learning: literacy intervention for baltimore city school children

    $25,000
  53. University of Maryland Foundation IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: sub summer learning: reach together math summer program

    $25,000
  54. Village Learning PlaceBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective, school-based after-school programs

    $25,000
  55. Wide Angle Youth MediaBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective after-school programs

    $25,000
  56. Emmanuel Episcopal ChurchBaltimore, MD

    Other

    $24,000
  57. Neighborhood Design Center IncBaltimore, MD

    Community development: support organizations that provide technical assistance and enhance the capabilities of groups that are working for community development in baltimore.

    $22,000
  58. 29th Street Community CenterBaltimore, MD

    Education: support summer and after-school programs

    $20,000
  59. Arts Every DayBaltimore, MD

    Education: baltimore children will have access to a quality public education in pre-k - 8th grade

    $20,000
  60. Code in the SchoolsBaltimore, MD

    Education: support cost-effective after school programs

    $20,000
  61. Fund for Educational Excellence IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: transportation project

    $20,000
  62. Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center IncBaltimore, MD

    Community development: support community organizations that have a record of attracting financial investments for their neighborhood revitalization efforts.

    $20,000
  63. Mother Seton AcademyBaltimore, MD

    Education: promote school choice for students & families

    $20,000
  64. No Boundaries Coalition IncBaltimore, MD

    Community development: baltimore will be a city of vibrant neighborhoods

    $20,000
  65. Port Discovery Children's MuseumBaltimore, MD

    Education: at play learning institute

    $20,000
  66. Fund for Educational Excellence IncBaltimore, MD

    Baltimore city public schhols - environment (sub climate change): greening grounds- leaf blowers

    $15,678
  67. Arts Education in Maryland Schools AllianceBaltimore, MD

    Education: baltimore children will have access to a quality public education in pre-k -8TH grade

    $15,000
  68. Arts for Learning MarylandBaltimore, MD

    Education: summer arts for learning academy

    $15,000
  69. Baltimore Curriculum ProjectBaltimore, MD

    Education : wolfe street academy

    $15,000
  70. Baltimore Family AllianceBaltimore, MD

    Community development: baltimore will be a city with vibrant neighborhoods.

    $15,000
  71. Maryland NonprofitsBaltimore, MD

    Community development: support organizations that provide technical assistance and enhance the capabilities of groups that are working for community development in baltimore.

    $15,000
  72. St Vincent de Paul of BaltimoreBaltimore, MD

    Education: sub summer learning: camp ST. Vincent

    $15,000
  73. Calvert School IncBaltimore, MD

    Education: general operating

    $12,000
  74. Connecticut Farmland TrustHartford, CT

    Environment

    $12,000
  75. Duquesne UniversityPittsburgh, PA

    Other

    $12,000
  76. Friends of Patterson ParkBaltimore, MD

    Community development: baltimore will be a city of vibrant neighborhoods

    $10,000
  77. Design Challenge NetworkPortsmouth, NH

    Education

    $8,000
  78. Derryfield SchoolManchester, NH

    Education: annual fund

    $4,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education16 grants $597,20034% of the total
  2. Environment10 grants $450,00026% of the total
  3. Arts and culture6 grants $145,0008% of the total
  4. Housing and shelter3 grants $120,0007% of the total
  5. Youth development2 grants $105,0006% of the total
  6. Philanthropy and grantmaking2 grants $75,0004% of the total
  7. 7 other causes10 grants $259,00015% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Maryland60 grants $2,040,200
  2. District of Columbia5 grants $210,000
  3. Massachusetts2 grants $125,000
  4. Virginia2 grants $100,000
  5. California1 grant $75,000
  6. Connecticut3 grants $72,000
  7. New York1 grant $40,000
  8. Pennsylvania2 grants $37,000
  9. New Hampshire2 grants $12,000

Officers, directors and trustees

8 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Susan Baker PowellTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Julia B SchnuppTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Benjamin M Baker IIITRUSTEE Hours 1.5Pay $0
  • Julia P O'BrienTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Brentnall M PowellTRUSTEE Hours 1.5Pay $0
  • Kevin A SchnuppTRUSTEE Hours 1.5Pay $0
  • David B PowellPRESIDENT/TRUSTEE Hours 2Pay $0
  • Kate Rawson PowellSECRETARY/TREASURER/ED Hours 24Pay $92,452

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