· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $758k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $551k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TALBOT BIBLE CHURCH | $260,000 |
| CRU | $116,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE | $105,000 |
| PECOMETH CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $80,000 |
| SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CHANNEL MARKER INC | $50,000 |
| CAROLINE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $50,000 |
| WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| BAYWATER WOMEN'S CLINIC | $45,000 |
| THE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE | $40,000 |
| CHESTERTOWN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $37,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY | $37,000 |
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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- CMCHANNEL MARKER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +37%
- CMCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +29%
- SCSALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2020 · $30k
- LWLIVING WATERS MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $30k
- MEMID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
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.
Trusting in Gods guidance, the mission of Cape Charles School is to educate and develop the Whole Child in a non-denominational Christian setting
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
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…
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…
The society provides an animal shelter for the residents of caroline county, md
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…
A christian outreach and support center serving those in need in carroll county, maryland.
Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.
Cch builds and manages quality affordable housing in caring communities.
None
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Charities Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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 92 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 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 TUCKAHOE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE FUND INC CARE & SHARE FUND 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: 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
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 At & Mary H Blades 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.
- 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
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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