Our 2024 Greenspring Grant Recipients provided an update on the impact of the Greenspring Grant Program’s support through voluntary impact reports. These reports detailed the number of lives impacted and the stories of those to whom they provide services. It is an incredibly heartwarming experience to see just how far the Greenspring Grant Program goes, so please enjoy reading about the fantastic things these organizations have accomplished.
Junior Achievement of South Central Pennsylvania
Junior Achievement of South Central PA’s mission is to build a culture where every individual —students, educators, volunteers, and staff—feels valued, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential.
During the 2024–2025 school year, 29,413 students in Pre-K–12th grade in Lancaster County participated in Junior Achievement’s hands-on financial literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurship programs. These programs teach students the essential skill of managing money, equipping them with the knowledge necessary to achieve financial security as adults. Beyond the lessons, these programs inspire students to envision a successful future for themselves. Junior Achievement had a record-breaking year, reaching a total of 113,416 students in Pre-K–12th grade in the 2024-2025 school year.
Dent Education
Dent Education’s mission is to partner with Baltimore youth to ignite their ability to shape the world around them.
With support from Greenspring Advisors, Dent Education’s Accelerate Your Dent (AYD) incubator empowered 43 Baltimore youth entrepreneurs in 2025 to launch real businesses. These ventures included uplifting fashion brands, a dessert book club, AI workshops for elementary schoolers, and mental health initiatives. In Spring 2025, 11 youth entrepreneurs launched their ventures, followed by 32 additional innovators in two cohorts during their Bet on Baltimore summer internship.
Highlights included Jalil Liverman, who grew his nonprofit, Dream Big Inferno, with Dent as his fiscal sponsor. He ran his own five-week summer program for 10 youths, funded by YouthWorks, and expanded his landscaping business, Mr. J’s Seasonal Services, to be featured on the news. Additionally, Semiah Luna held a book signing at Mahogany Books’ Black Books Matter Fest. Through the efforts of Dent Education, Baltimore youth earned wages while gaining entrepreneurial skills, financial literacy, and social capital, helping build the next generation of innovators.
Maryland Center for Collegiate Financial Wellness
The Maryland Center for Collegiate Financial Wellness’s mission is to foster a continuum of campus-based financial wellness programming and supports that build financial life skills and empower students to thrive.
The MCCFW utilized the grant from Greenspring Advisors to host the CRREST Academy Challenge at Towson University in April 2025. The CRREST Academy is an online financial education course designed to address the unique financial education and wellness needs of college and career school students. The Academy comprises 18 video modules with experiential exercises that cover topics including financial aid, basic needs, credit cards, and investing. Initial analysis of student learning showed an average pre-test score of 64.9% and an average post-test score of 79%.
The MCCFW collaborated with a multi-departmental team of campus-based professionals from Towson, targeting students who participated in the university’s Student Success Programs, including TRIO, SAGE, and First Gen Forward. More than 200 students participated in the challenge, which was launched during Money Smart Week.
Maryland Council on Economic Education
The mission of the Maryland Council on Economic Education is to equip preK-12 educators with the tools and resources to build their students’ financial capability and economic understanding, creating financially empowered Marylanders.
During the 2024–2025 school year, the Maryland Council on Economic Education directly impacted 236,963 students across Maryland through professional development for teachers, classroom resources, and student learning programs. Some of the educator support included 122 professional development workshops and courses offered to teachers, as well as the 16 Annual Personal Finance & Economic Educator Summit, with over 200 educators attending sessions featuring Maryland teachers and national experts.
MCEE also provided a multitude of student learning programs, including but not limited to: the Personal Finance Challenge, where 273 high school teams competed and one placed 2 in the National Challenge; the Economics Challenge, where Mount Hebron High School teams defended their National Championship titles in both divisions; and the Poster Contest, where K-8 students illustrated financial concepts through art, with winners’ work displayed at the Maryland Treasury Building.
Future Link
Future Link aims to overcome issues of social injustice and income inequality, launching its participants to financial independence and self-sufficiency
In the past year, Future Link expanded all its service areas. In their Phase I: Self-Advocacy and Career Development Seminar, Future Link hosted its largest cohort since its inception in 2008, welcoming 93 students to begin their career exploration journey. Following this, 90% of the participants were onboarded into Phase II, their multi-year personalized support program, where 315 students gained access to mentors, career coaches, paid internships, academic scholarships, tutors, and other holistic services.
Future Link served 130 young adults in their Career Coaching Program, which helps students develop their professional story, resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, and interview preparation, before placing them in paid internships or jobs. Future Link successfully matched 98 students (80%) of all career coaching participants to a paid internship or job this year, utilizing 71 companies. Mentoring, their largest program offering, took another significant step forward, with 210 active mentorships this year. In addition, to keep pace with their students’ evolving needs, Future Link has added a seventh full-time staff member, a Student Engagement Associate, who provides direct care and leadership to the students.
Philadelphia Financial Scholars
The mission of Philadelphia Financial Scholars is to provide high school students, teachers, and families with the tools needed to develop financial skills, build greater wealth, and achieve financial empowerment.
Philadelphia Financial Scholars was able to expand high-quality personal finance education and opportunities to more students in underserved Philadelphia communities. PFS equipped 49 teachers with ready-to-use curriculum, in-person and virtual professional development, and individualized classroom coaching. PFS provided in-school financial education to 3,385 students in Philadelphia. They also provided parents and caregivers with evening financial empowerment workshops and tools to enhance household financial decision-making, along with a $250 contribution to a 529 college savings account upon completion.
PFS observed an average growth of 61% in students’ financial knowledge across core topics, including budgeting, credit, investing, and taxes. One hundred percent of adult workshop participants said they would recommend the program to a friend. Additionally, 200 students participated in entrepreneurship and investing enrichment programs, including the Teen Investing Summit with over 150 student participants.
Make Studio
Make Studio’s mission is to empower artists with disabilities to grow as professionals with visibility and voice in their communities.
Make Studio’s artists were able to elect one of three professional tracks— retail/entrepreneurial, teaching, or curatorial/consulting—to sustainably pursue opportunities to grow their skill sets in ways they find most meaningful and support lasting income streams. In addition to increasing and maintaining artist enrollment at their intended level, the organization and studio artists presented and/or participated in almost five dozen unique events, including internal and external exhibitions, competitions, festivals, speaking engagements, and workshops.
Make Studio expanded its professional enrichment tracks with the addition of over a dozen artist presentations and training opportunities , and saw public attendance at its events grow by nearly 50% from the prior year. They achieved over $ 15,000 in art sales and reached more than 1,000 community members through their events.
Conclusion
In addition to the seven organizations listed in this report, the following organizations were also 2024 Greenspring Grant Recipients: The Trinity Center for Community, Springboard Community Services, and South Ward Promise.
The Greenspring Grant Program was established in 2012 to support the mission of local non-profits. This program is employee-run, and each year, it allows a new team of employees to have the rewarding task of selecting and awarding money to organizations that are making an impact.
Applicants may apply for the Greenspring Grant to support the general operations of their organization, a specific program, or an initiative. In either case, Greenspring requires that organizations complete the online application to apply for funding. The 2026 Greenspring Grant Program cycle timeline will be announced in early 2026 here:
https://greenspringadvisors.com/about/giving/grant-program/
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