​In the 1990's, St. Margaret's parishioners, Ed and Zoe Hall, left a financial gift to the church to do with what the parish decided. It was voted to create an endowment fund that would be used to provide fund projects of nonprofits each year that followed the priorities of St. Margaret's. Since that time, local, regional and international organizations have benefited from their generosity. 
 
St. Margaret's Church Endowment Grant Applications Now Being Accepted!
Applications for the next round of St. Margaret's Church Endowment Grants are being accepted now through December 1. Grants will be awarded in Spring 2026.
Since the late 1990s, St. Margaret's Church has distributed nearly $3 million in grants to organizations around the world.
Apply online here: https://submit.link/459
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 Any charitable organization can submit one grant application aligned with the stated guidelines.  
 Grant requests should be compatible with one or more of our mission priorities. Compatibility with more than one priority does not assure preference for consideration. 
 Our priorities are:  
  • Endow the poor and hungry with the means to feed, shelter and clothe themselves (e.g., homelessness prevention and food bank programs) 
  • Restore the ill to health and heal the broken (e.g., health, addiction recovery) 
  • Promote, preserve and sustain environmental health and good practices (e.g., clean water and environmental advocacy programs) 
  • Improve access to educational opportunities (e.g., tutoring, mentoring) 
  • Implement trust, enable reconciliation, confront structural racism and inequality (e.g., mentorship programs for at risk youth, security deposit grants for the homeless, discussion programs that bring together people of varying racial and social economic backgrounds) 
 Programs must: 
  • Demonstrate need; 
  • Support one of the following: a new initiative; an expansion or addition to an existing program/project; or an exceptional, short-term need for assistance with general operating expenses; 
  • Show clearly defined project goals and objectives: detailed schedules, budgets and personnel; and 
  • Explain methods to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the program/project after implementation. 

2025 Endowment Grants Selected Grantees
This year, the St. Margaret’s Church Grants Committee received 45 applications from organizations across the globe.  The Vestry approved the following organizations to receive grants. 
$15,000 - Chase Lloyd House, Annapolis - Women's Rent Eviction Prevention Program
$15,000 – Court Appointed Special Advocates, Anne Arundel County – Support for children in foster care.
$12,500 – Annapolis Immigration Justice Network, Anne Arundel County – Legal representation for four families facing deportation.


$12,500 – Joel Nafuma Refugee Center, Rome, Italy – Food, supplies and staffing to support migrants.
$12,500 – Chrysalis House, Crownsville - Kitchen repairs for all-female recovery program.
$12,000 – St. Luke’s Youth Center, Baltimore – Summer camp experience at Claggett Center for 20 inner city youth.
$12,000 – Siempre Unidos, Honduras – Skills training and income generation program for HIV positive individuals living in extreme poverty.
$10,000 – Community Project Ethiopia – Funds to build a fifth-grade classroom in an extremely impoverished community.
$8,500 - Joy Reigns Lutheran Church, Edgewater - Journey to Joy long-term recovery program for women and their children.
$8,000 – American Friends for the Episcopal Church of the Sudans, South Sudan - Trauma healing & educational programs for women who are survivors of war.
$7,000 – Hope for All, Glen Burnie – Supplies for their turning houses into homes program to assist families transitioning out of homelessness.
$5,000 – Cheyenne River Episcopal Mission- South Dakota – Summer camp and recreational horse therapy for Lakota children.