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Bettinger-Marshall Foundationinc

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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$13kEducation$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kFood & Nutrition$5kCrime & Legal$3kEnvironment$3kHuman Services$3kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTO ANIMAL RESCUE & CARE SHELTER$1,500
MARYLAND SPCA$1,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,500
LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$1,500
BEL AIR VOLUNTEER FIRE CO$1,500
HARFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$1,500
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$1,500
SALAVATION ARMY HARFORD-CECIL COS$1,500
OTTER LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH$1,000
OTTER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
WOODGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
WHITE OTTER FISH & GAME CLUB$1,000
WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $500 → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%OTTER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 12%LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 14%OTTER LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1k → 19%MARYLAND STATE POLICE MEMORIAL FUND: $500 → 5%BALTO ANIMAL RESCUE & CARE SHELTER: $2k → 6%HARFORD COUNTY FIRE & EMS ASSOC: $500 → 7%MARYLAND SPCA: $2k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%OTTER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 12%LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 14%OTTER LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1k → 19%MARYLAND STATE POLICE MEMORIAL FUND: $500 → 5%SALAVATION ARMY HARFORD-CECIL COS: $2k → 7%MARYLAND SPCA: $1k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%OTTER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 12%LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 14%OTTER LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $500 → 16%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1k → 19%BEL AIR VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $2k → 7%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%OTTER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 12%LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 14%WOODGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1k → 19%HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%WHITE OTTER FISH & GAME CLUB: $1k → 16%HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%WHITE OTTER FISH & GAME CLUB: $500 → 16%HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%WOODGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 16%BEL AIR VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $500 → 7%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%WOODGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 16%HARFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 7%WOODGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 16%HARFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 7%WHITE OTTER FISH & GAME CLUB: $500 → 16%HARFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 7%HARFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 7%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 13 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$44k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+8%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsCrime & LegalHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +112%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +38%
  • LC
    LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +8%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • HC
    HARFORD COUNTY FIRE & EMS ASSOC
    one grant, 2023 · $500
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
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc

See schedule othe marine corps scholarship foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. founded in 1962, the marine corps scholarship foundation provides access to education for…

Education
2
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
3
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
4
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
5
Washington State Council of Fire Fighters Employee Benefit Trust

It is the mission of the wscff employee benefit trust to provide the best possible plan benefits to its participating members and to enhance the plan as greater benefit options become available in the dynamic health care industry.

Membership Benefit
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
9
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
10
Military Officers Association of America Scholarship Fund

Provide interest-free loans and grants for undergraduate education to children of former, active, and retired commissioned or warrant officers of the seven uniformed services, and to children of active or retired enlisted members of the…

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11
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Harford County Sheriff's Foundation 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

9 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. 9 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $4,500 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCHARFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · OtherHARFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYWHITE OTTER FISH AND GAME CLUB: $2,500 · OtherWHITE OTTER FISH AND GAME CLUBOTTER LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherOTTER LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCHWOODGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,500 · OtherWOODGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTOTTER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,500 · OtherOTTER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENTBEL AIR VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $2,000 · OtherBEL AIR VOLUNTEER FIRE COBALTO ANIMAL RESCUE & CARE SHELTER: $1,500 · OtherBALTO ANIMAL RESCUE & CARE SHELTERSALAVATION ARMY HARFORD-CECIL COS: $1,500 · OtherSALAVATION ARMY HARFORD-CECIL COSMARYLAND STATE POLICE MEMORIAL FUND: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,250 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO T…WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COL…LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,500 · AnimalsLEWIS COUNTY HUM…THE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $2,750 · AnimalsTHE MARYLAND SPC…THE HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $500 · HealthMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$26,250Education$11,500Animals$7,250Crime & Legal$3,000Health$500Philanthropy$250Recreation & Sports$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds LEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bettinger-Marshall Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bettinger-Marshall Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Bettinger-Marshall Foundationinc 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 21 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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