Opportunity Overview
Open now on a rolling LOI basis. The Leonard & Helen R. Stulman Foundation concentrates its grantmaking in Maryland and supports nonprofit work in three core areas: mental health, health, and aging. The Foundation states that 95% of its giving is in Maryland, with a substantial share in Baltimore City.
Funding and Application Timing
The Foundation does not publish a universal current award ceiling or standard request amount on its application guidance. Applicants begin with a Letter of Inquiry (LOI), which is accepted throughout the year on a rolling basis and reviewed monthly. Strong-fit applicants may then be invited to submit a full proposal. The Board meets three times per year, with invited-proposal deadlines generally in mid-January, mid-May and mid-September.
Who Can Apply
Applicants must be a nonprofit organization with IRS 501(c)(3) status or operate with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor in good standing. The Foundation concentrates its grantmaking within Maryland. It does not fund K-12 public education, conferences or symposia, brick-and-mortar capital projects, or individual scholarships.
Health and Mental Health Priorities
In mental health, the Foundation seeks to increase access to treatment for underserved populations, including integration of mental-health care into community and primary-care settings and services tailored to underserved communities, including people with limited English proficiency. It also supports treatment, supportive services and practice improvement for people with serious mental illness.
In health, priorities include chronic-disease prevention and management, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease; increasing access to healthcare for disadvantaged populations; and addressing social determinants of health.
In aging, the Foundation supports services and initiatives that help older adults remain in their communities of choice, along with unmet health and mental-health needs of older adults.
LOI Requirements
The initial LOI should be no more than two pages, be signed by the Executive Director and Board President, and clearly describe the organization’s mission and programs, the purpose of the request, the amount requested and proposed use of funds, and alignment with Foundation priorities. Meetings or calls are not required before submitting an LOI. Full proposals are invitation-only.
Invited Full Proposal Requirements
If the Foundation invites a full proposal, the current guidance requires the IRS 501(c)(3) determination letter or fiscal-sponsor documentation, a list of board members with affiliations, the annual operating budget, a project budget when requesting project-specific funding, the most recent audited financial statements, and the annual report if the organization produces one. The Foundation is flexible on proposal format and will accept a proposal prepared for another funder when the content is relevant.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 94/100. This is a strong Maryland health-access and behavioral-health funding pathway because the Foundation explicitly funds underserved-population access, community and primary-care integration, chronic-disease work, serious-mental-illness supports and aging services, while accepting rolling LOIs.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 18/100, conditional. The Foundation excludes brick-and-mortar capital projects and does not publish a direct connected-clinical-device or telehealth-hardware procurement pathway. A technology component should only be considered when it is a modest, clearly programmatic part of an eligible nonprofit-led health-access model and confirmed allowable by the funder.
QC Healthcare Fit: 42/100, conditional. There is a credible pathway for qualified clinical or behavioral-health service partners inside an eligible nonprofit-led program, particularly for access-to-care, integrated mental-health, chronic-disease and aging initiatives.
Official sources: Stulman Foundation — What We Fund and Stulman Foundation — How to Apply.