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At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inc

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.4MReligion$1.0MRecreation & Sports$954kHealth$855kHuman Services$588kArts & Culture$586kHousing & Shelter$508kCivil Rights$412kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $758k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $551k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TALBOT BIBLE CHURCH$260,000
CRU$116,000
CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE$105,000
PECOMETH CAMP & RETREAT CENTER$80,000
ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL$50,000
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
CHANNEL MARKER INC$50,000
CAROLINE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$50,000
SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$50,000
BAYWATER WOMEN'S CLINIC$45,000
WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL$45,000
THE COUNTRY SCHOOL$40,000
CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE$40,000
JOHNS HOPKINS DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY$37,000
CHESTERTOWN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$37,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOND SERVANTS INC: $30k → 15%Bond Servants: $30k → 15%BOND SERVANTS INC: $20k → 15%BOND SERVANTS INC: $20k → 15%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $35k → 13%CARE & SHARE FUND: $10k → 15%UPPER SHORE AGING: $35k → 12%CARE & SHARE FUND: $10k → 15%Care & Share Fund: $10k → 15%UPPER SHORE AGING: $35k → 12%CARE & SHARE FUND: $10k → 15%CARE & SHARE FUND: $10k → 15%Upper Shore Aging Inc: $30k → 12%BOND SERVANTS INC: $10k → 15%CARE & SHARE FUND: $10k → 15%UPPER SHORE AGING: $30k → 12%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $30k → 13%UPPER SHORE AGING: $30k → 12%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $30k → 13%UPPER SHORE AGING: $30k → 12%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $30k → 13%CASA OF CAROLINE INC: $20k → 13%CASA OF CAROLINE INC: $20k → 13%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $25k → 13%Christian Shelter Inc: $25k → 13%CASA OF CAROLINE INC: $10k → 13%CASA OF CAROLINE INC: $10k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 76%.

At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 63 repeat orgs$426k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
23

Total granted

$9.3M
$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+23%

Still filing today

44%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentEmploymentOther
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

  • CM
    CHANNEL MARKER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +37%
  • CM
    Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +40%
  • SC
    SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • LW
    LIVING WATERS MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • SA
    Salvation Army
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • ME
    MID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cape Charles Christian School Inc

Trusting in Gods guidance, the mission of Cape Charles School is to educate and develop the Whole Child in a non-denominational Christian setting

Education
2
Chesapeake Group Homes Inc

The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals

Human Services
3
Chesapeake Care Resources Inc

To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability

Health
4
Chapel Pointe At Carlisle

Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…

Human Services
5
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
6
Caroline County Humane Society Inc

The society provides an animal shelter for the residents of caroline county, md

Animals
7
Culpeper Christian School Inc

Culpeper christian school exists to please the lord jesus christ and to train students by working with the home to build academic excellence on the word of god. the school served approximately 150 students from k-3 preschool through 8th…

Education
8
Shepherds Staff Inc

A christian outreach and support center serving those in need in carroll county, maryland.

Human Services
9
Coastal Christian High School Inc

Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.

Education
10
Christian Church Homes

Cch builds and manages quality affordable housing in caring communities.

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11
Caroline Center Inc

None

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12
Maryland Salem Children's Trust Inc

Provides home, family, therapy and educational services to children in need. program focuses on life skills development and character formation. both family restoration and the provision of a permanent home base are offered to all children.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Charities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE: $1,050,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE COLLEGECRU: $675,000 · OtherCRUTALBOT BIBLE CHURCH: $645,495 · OtherTALBOT BIBLE CHURCHPECOMETH CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $474,500 · OtherPECOMETH CAMP & RETREAT CENTERChoices Pregnancy Center: $420,000 · OtherChoices Pregnancy CenterSALISBURY UNIVERSITY OUTDOOR EDUCATION LEADERSHIP: $350,000 · OtherCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc: $290,000 · OtherTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $240,000 · Other+61 more: $2,604,855 · Other+61 moreSALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $255,000 · EducationSALISBURY CHRISTIA…SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationSALISBURY UNIVERSI…WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC: $233,000 · EducationWYE RIVER UPPER SC…RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $215,000 · EducationRADCLIFFE CREEK SC…GOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE: $175,000 · EducationGOLDEY-BEACOM COLL…MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC: $150,000 · EducationMCDANIEL COLLEGE I…WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationWASHINGTON COLLEGEMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $100,000 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL IN…+2 more: $37,000 · EducationUPPER SHORE AGING INC: $190,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED: $175,000 · Human ServicesBOND SERVANTS INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesCARE & SHARE FUND INC CARE & SHARE FUND INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF CAROLINE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesCHANNEL MARKER INC: $375,000 · HealthCARE FOR ALS INC: $59,000 · HealthECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC: $225,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentTALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterBAY HUNDRED COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $38,000 · Housing & ShelterHIS HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CAROLINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,749,850Education$1,565,000Human Services$595,000Health$434,000Environment$230,000Housing & Shelter$138,000Arts & Culture$75,000

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 budgetCHANNEL MARKER INC: $375,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc: $290,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $255,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $240,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC: $233,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC: $225,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $215,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetUPPER SHORE AGING INC: $190,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED: $175,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetGOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOND SERVANTS INC: $110,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE: $105,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAROLINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetTALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC: $75,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CENTER INC: $71,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCARE & SHARE FUND INC CARE & SHARE FUND INC: $60,000 over 6y, 86% of budgetTUCKAHOE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $60,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCASA OF CAROLINE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCARE FOR ALS INC: $59,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $47,005 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAY HUNDRED COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $38,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIS HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAARONS PLACE INC: $24,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 CHANNEL MARKER INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER SHORE AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOND SERVANTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE ↗
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE CAROLINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CARE & SHARE FUND INC CARE & SHARE FUND 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.

Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · The Llandaff Family Trust · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · The Caroline Foundation Inc · Qlarant Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The May Foundation of Maryland · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Verizon Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Center Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Casa of Caroline Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Upper Shore Aging Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Goldey-Beacom College: 1% of income from government
  • Salisbury University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 92 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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