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Blue Waters Foundation

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.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$565kFood & Nutrition$400kHousing & Shelter$349kHuman Services$335kEducation$245kPhilanthropy$215kCivil Rights$50kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK$85,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION$45,000
INFINITE HERO FOUNDATION$30,000
HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION$30,000
THE HELPING UP MISSION INC$25,000
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE$20,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$15,000
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%INFINITE HERO FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60k → 8%YWCA: $15k → 6%VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROJECT: $50k → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $55k → 11%THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC FBO MARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $175k → 19%INFINITE HERO FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%JUNEA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%YWCA: $15k → 6%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $50k → 11%THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $35k → 19%GARY SINESE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $35k → 11%THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $25k → 19%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE: $15k → 6%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $25k → 11%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC: $65k → 6%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $25k → 11%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA: $50k → 6%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $20k → 11%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC: $40k → 6%FJHM SCHWEIZER FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 19%FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE: $25k → 6%THE HELPING UP MISSION INC: $25k → 19%FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE: $25k → 6%THE HELPING UP MISSION INC: $25k → 19%FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE: $20k → 6%THE HELPING UP MISSION INC: $20k → 19%FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE: $20k → 6%THE HELPING UP MISSION INC: $20k → 19%FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE: $20k → 6%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK: $50k → 6%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK: $40k → 6%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK: $25k → 6%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20k → 6%ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20k → 6%HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 18 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$2.0M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+181%

Still filing today

67%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

  • SA
    SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $235k · revenue +69%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $220k · revenue +34%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · 89% of their budget
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC FBO YWCA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Housing Unlimited Inc

Housing unlimited, inc. is a non-profit dedicated to providing affordable, permanent housing opportunities and independent living for adults in mental health recovery.

Housing & Shelter
2
Anacortes Family Center

The mission of the anacortes family center is to serve homeless women, children and families in crisis by providing shelter in addition to comprehensive transformational services to achieve long lasting personal success and…

Housing & Shelter
3
Archway Communities Inc

Provide affordable housing for low income and moderate-income families and seniors.

Housing & Shelter
4
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

5
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
6
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
7
Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation

Anne arundel workforce development corporation (aawdc) is a nonprofit organization that enhances the economic vitality of anne arundel county by developing and implementing workforce solutions. we build and maintain a pipeline of skilled…

Employment
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
Archway Housing & Services

To provide safe, habitable housing for families with low to moderate incomes, including homeless families, and to develop mixed income housing to help low income families in the transition to self-sufficiency while providing comprehensive…

Housing & Shelter
10
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Va

Habitat for humanity of northern virginia brings our community together to build decent, affordable houses - and hope - for people in need. habitat provides a "hand up" to home ownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer…

11
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

12
The Arh Foundation for Healthier Communities Inc

To further healthcare, education and community involvement in eastern kentucky and southern west virginia through philanthropy and fundraising for appalachia.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arundel Community Development Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Children's Chorus of Annapolis. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC FBO MARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $295,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYL…HELPING UP MISSION INC — $100,000 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUND…YWCA — $40,000 · OtherYWCATHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC FBO YWCA — $25,000 · Other+7 more — $68,100 · Other+7 moreGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $125,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATIONJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $110,000 · PhilanthropyJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDA…THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $105,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTR…INFINITE HERO FOUNDATION — $65,000 · PhilanthropyINFINITE HERO FOUNDATIO…THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROJECT — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROJ…SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK — $235,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTHEAST ALASKA FOO…ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $165,000 · Food & NutritionANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $220,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMAN…FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE INC — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF THE LI…+1 more — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $195,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC — $185,000 · Civil RightsANNE ARUN…All Children's Chorus of Annapolis — $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$623,100Philanthropy$455,000Food & Nutrition$400,000Housing & Shelter$346,000Education$195,000Civil Rights$185,000Arts & Culture$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK — $235,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $220,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $195,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC — $185,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE INC — $125,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINFINITE HERO FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC
  • Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIGHT HOUSE INC
  • Who funds JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds INFINITE HERO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROJECT
  • Who funds All Children's Chorus of Annapolis
  • Who funds ARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 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.

Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Blue Waters Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Helping Up Mission Inc6% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc4% of income from government
  • Arundel Community Development Services Inc2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Blue Waters Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Blue Waters Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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