· Private foundation
Bernard and Betty Hardesty Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of BERNARD AND BETTY HARDESTY CHARITABLE 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S PARISH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SHORERIVERS | $500 |
| ST PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $400 |
| ST ANNES SCHOOL OF ANNAPOLIS | $400 |
| ADKINS ARBORETUM | $300 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION | $300 |
| THE CHESTERWYE CENTER | $300 |
| CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES | $300 |
| WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND | $300 |
| HAVEN MINISTRIES INC | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 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
- CRCOMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +10%
- QAQUEEN ANNES COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +15%
- SISHORERIVERS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- RZRISING ZION BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $1k
- QAQUEEN ANNES MENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, medstar southern maryland hospital center's (medstar southern maryland) mission is to uphold its commitment to the community by continuously promoting, maintaining, and improving health…
We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
Improve the health of the communities we serve.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…
To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…
Wayne memorial health system strives to be the provider of first choice for community health care in wayne, pike, and susquehanna counties, and the greater carbondale and forest city regions of northeast pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNES COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ADKINS ARBORETUM LTD ↗
- Who funds CHESTERWYE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSOM BUDDIES CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHATCOM HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S SCHOOL OF ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HILL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENT ISLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY 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 · Friel Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn · The May Foundation of Maryland · The Clifton Foundation Inc · Fordi Family Foundation Inc · The Salmon Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
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 Bernard and Betty Hardesty Charitable 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.
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Chesterwye Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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