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Alice Kolb Tax Exempt Char Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$205kHuman Services$137kArts & Culture$68kPublic Safety & Disaster$68kCommunity Improvement$68kPhilanthropy$68kEducation$63kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $800
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $114k
$11,382
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$22,764
HOME FOR THE AGED$11,382
FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME$11,382
EVANGELICAL REF UN CHCHRIST$11,382
UNITED WAYFREDERICK CO INC$11,382
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF$11,382
FREDERICK WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB$11,382
C BURR ARTZ TRUST$11,382
UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO$11,382
FREDERICK HEALTH HOSPITAL INC$800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME: $12k → 12%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25k → 6%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME: $11k → 12%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $23k → 6%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME: $11k → 12%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $22k → 6%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME: $11k → 12%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $22k → 6%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME: $11k → 12%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $21k → 6%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME: $6k → 12%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $13k → 6%UNITED WAY-FREDERICK CO INC: $12k → 6%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF: $12k → 6%FREDERICK WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB: $12k → 6%C BURR ARTZ TRUST: $12k → 6%EVANGELICAL REF UN CH-CHRIST: $12k → 6%UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO: $12k → 6%FREDERICK WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB: $11k → 6%UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO: $11k → 6%C BURR ARTZ TRUST: $11k → 6%EVANGELICAL REF UN CHCHRIST: $11k → 6%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF: $11k → 6%UNITED WAYFREDERICK CO INC: $11k → 6%UNITED WAY-FREDERICK CO INC: $11k → 6%FREDERICK WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB: $11k → 6%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF: $11k → 6%EVANGELICAL REF UN CH-CHRIST: $11k → 6%UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO: $11k → 6%C BURR ARTZ TRUST: $11k → 6%C BURR ARTZ TRUST: $11k → 6%UNITED WAY-FREDERICK CO INC: $11k → 6%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF: $11k → 6%FREDERICK WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB: $11k → 6%UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO: $11k → 6%EVANGELICAL REF UN CH-CHRIST: $11k → 6%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $11k → 6%EVANGELICAL REF UN CH-CHRIST: $11k → 6%UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO: $11k → 6%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF: $11k → 6%FREDERICK WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB: $11k → 6%UNITED WAY-FREDERICK CO INC: $11k → 6%C BURR ARTZ TRUST: $11k → 6%HOME FOR THE AGED: $12k → 6%HOME FOR THE AGED: $11k → 6%HOME FOR THE AGED: $11k → 6%HOME FOR THE AGED: $11k → 6%HOME FOR THE AGED: $11k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$674k · 10 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$674k
$5k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FW
    FREDERICK WOMEN'S CIVIC CLUB INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +17% · 40% of their budget
  • US
    UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO 3 OF FREDERICK CITY MARYLAND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +67%
  • TH
    THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $136,940 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHEVANGELICAL REF UN CH-CHRIST: $68,471 · OtherEVANGELICAL REF UN CH-CHRISTFATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOME: $68,471 · OtherFATHER FLANAGAN'S BOY'S HOMEHOME FOR THE AGED: $68,471 · OtherHOME FOR THE AGEDC BURR ARTZ TRUST: $63,255 · OtherC BURR ARTZ TRUST+2 more: $16,597 · OtherFREDERICK WOMEN'S CIVIC CLUB INC: $68,471 · Community ImprovementFREDERICK W…UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO 3 OF FREDERICK CITY MARYLAND: $68,471 · Public Safety & DisasterUNITED STEA…THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $68,471 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORI…UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $57,089 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…Frederick Health Hospital Inc: $5,600 · Health
Other$422,205Community Improvement$68,471Public Safety & Disaster$68,471Arts & Culture$68,471Philanthropy$57,089Health$5,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREDERICK WOMEN'S CIVIC CLUB INC: $68,471 over 7y, 40% of budgetUNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO 3 OF FREDERICK CITY MARYLAND: $68,471 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $68,471 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetC BURR ARTZ TRUST: $63,255 over 7y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $57,089 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFrederick Health Hospital Inc: $5,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FREDERICK WOMEN'S CIVIC CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STEAM FIRE ENGINE CO 3 OF FREDERICK CITY MARYLAND ↗
  • Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds C BURR ARTZ TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Frederick Health Hospital Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland IncMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alice Kolb Tax Exempt Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alice Kolb Tax Exempt Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Frederick Health Hospital Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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