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Bethesda Chapter Afcea at a glance

· Public charity

Bethesda Chapter Afcea

An organization dedicated to scientific, industrial, and military preparedness for the common defense, contributing to national security and peace, as well as to advancing the achievement of civil agencies' missions and goals.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$232kHousing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$34kHealth$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$58,373
Median grant
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States reached
$615k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFCEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION - BETHESDA CHAPTER$58,373
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 14%AFCEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $64k → 6%AFCEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION - BETHESA CHAPTER: $85k → 7%AFCEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION - BETHESDA CHAPTER: $58k → 9%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $34k → 8%WOMEN VETERANS INTERACTIVE INC: $20k → 11%MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC: $15k → 8%WOMEN VETERANS INTERACTIVE INC: $15k → 11%THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE: $10k → 8%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 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.

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Afcea Educational Foundation Central Maryland Chapter

Afcea central maryland chapter is a non-profit organization for information technology professionals. our chapters serve the military, government, industry, and academia as an ethical forum for advancing professional knowledge and…

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2
Afcea - Washington Dc Chapter Educational Foundation

The educational scholarship fund promotes higher education in engineering, mathematics, and science through financial scholarship and educational initiatives in an effort to foster continued development and advancement within the…

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3
Afcea Educational Foundation Alamo Chapter

Education/scholarships to those interested in science fields

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4
University of Dc Foundation Inc

The corporation is organized exclusively for scientific, literary, charitable, educational purposes for the benefit of the university of the district of columbia.

Education
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Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…

Philanthropy
6
Medal of Honor Foundation Inc

The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…

Arts & Culture
7
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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8
Marine Corps Association Foundation

To provide resources and support to sustain and expand programs and activities essential to the marine corps association's (mca) mission by engaging everyone inspired by the marine corps.

Arts & Culture
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association - Alamo Chapter

Afcea is dedicated to increasing knowledge through the exploration of issues relevant to its members in information technology, communications, and electronics for the defense, homeland security and intelligence communities and other…

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12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Afcea Educational Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Women Veterans Interactive Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFCEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION BETHESDA CHAPTER: $143,373 · OtherAFCEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION BETHESDA CHAPTERTHE AFCEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $63,500 · OtherTHE AFCEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONWomen Veterans Interactive Inc: $35,000 · OtherWomen Veterans Interactive IncFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $5,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationFriends of Patients at the NIH Inc: $10,000 · Health
Other$280,373Education$25,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAFCEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION BETHESDA CHAPTER: $143,373 over 2y, 100% of budgetTHE AFCEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $63,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Patients at the NIH Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bethesda Chapter Afcea funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bethesda Chapter Afcea. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Friends of Patients at the Nih Inc: 26% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 8 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 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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