· Private foundation
Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of ALICE V & DAVID W FLETCHER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $459k
- $250k+1 grant · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION INC | $315,514 |
| GATEKEEPERS CORPORATION | $150,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE AR | $100,000 |
| WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $55,000 |
| BROOK LANES HEALTH SERVICES INC | $53,788 |
| HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC | $50,000 |
| COLLEGIUM SANCTORUM ANGELORUM INC | $50,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $30,100 |
| CHILDREN IN NEED | $30,000 |
| SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL OF CHURCH | $25,000 |
| FORT RITCHIE COMMUNITY CENTER CORPO | $25,000 |
| FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $658k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k 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
- TMTHE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2024 · $816k · revenue +27%
- SMSAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC7× · 2017–2024 · $492k · revenue +96%
- MHMERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +468%
Funded once
- PCPOTOMAC CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $68k · revenue +67%
- HGHORZON GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $40k
- PRPRESSLEY RIDGE WESTERN MARYLANDone grant, 2020 · $38k
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.
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.
To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To champion and sustain thriving, racially-integrated communities in and around columbia, maryland.
The Organization's mission is to promote and provide collaborative problem solving processes throughout Montgomery County, MD.
Promotes the arts and related activities at local, state and national levels
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington provides the "Next Step" program as well as other employment and social services. The Next Step Program is a self-sufficiency program which allows participants to set life improvement goals for…
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Collegium Sanctorum Angelorum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 54 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 THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEKEEPERS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIUM SANCTORUM ANGELORUM ↗
- Who funds FORT RITCHIE COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SERVICE COALITION OF HANCOCK MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BROOK LANE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Mediation Maryland Inc ↗
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 Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Holzapfel Family Charitable Foundation C/O James Holzapfel · Irving M Einbinder Charitable Foundation Incorporated · W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust · Firstenergy 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 Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation 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.
- Meritus Health Foundation Inc — 94% of income from government
- Community Mediation Maryland Inc — 37% of income from government
- San Mar Children's Home Inc — 29% of income from government
- Gatekeepers Corporation — 13% of income from government
- Interfaith Service Coalition of Hancock Maryland Inc — 5% of income from government
- Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc — 5% of income from government
- Potomac Case Management Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts — 2% 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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