· Private foundation
Alexander Charities Inc
TO PROVIDE A FOCUS ON HOUSING, SHELTER, AND REALTED NEEDS IN THE CITY OF HAGERSTOWN AND WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Senior Living Alternative Inc | $43,192 |
| Reach of Washington County (MD) | $18,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 |
| Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc | $5,000 |
| St Johns Shelter for homeless families Inc | $4,800 |
| Womens Club Foundation Inc | $4,381 |
| TruNorth Company | $3,900 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SLSenior Living Alternatives Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +27%
- WCWOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +90%
- TCTruNorth Company4× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- TSThe Salvation Armyone grant, 2019 · $2k
- TIThe Interfaith Service Coalitianone grant, 2020 · $2k
- RERELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +90%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Hopeworks mission is to provide support and advocacy for people in howard county affected by sexual and intimate partner violence and engage the community in creating the change required for prevention.
Housing help plus is a community development organization that specializes in affordable housing development and management with a secondary focus on urban agriculture projects that benefit the community.
The mission of washington homeownership resource center is to increase and preserve homeownership in washington state. we provide homebuyers and homeowners with information and referrals to vetted resources. our referrals include homebuyer…
Welcome house of south county's mission is to provide emergency shelter, transitional & supported permanent housing to the homeless of washington county. we are committed to the well-being of our clients as we seek to provide affordable &…
It is the mission of homefront development corporation to assist low to moderate income homeowners through housing rehabilitation, emergency home repair programs, and management of affordable senior rental housing in washington and warren…
The organization's primary exempt mission is to work toward a future free of violence, and to build a community in which each individual shares the responsibility to create a culture of safety and personal dignity. the dvrc works…
The community housing fund secures new sources of capital and makes those funds available in the form of flexible loans to community partners who create and preserve equitable and affordable homes and related community facilities in…
Habitat for humanity in whatcom county is a nondenominational christian non-profit organization whose purpose is to create affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience for people everywhere.
Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Community Action Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is TruNorth Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Senior Living Alternatives Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Hagerstown Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TruNorth Company ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF VALOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA - CITIZENS ASSISTING AND SHELTERING THE ABUSED INC ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC (REACH) ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alexander Charities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Casa - Citizens Assisting and Sheltering the Abused Inc — 35% of income from government
- Washington County Community Action Council Inc — 7% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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