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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SASOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK3× · 2023–2025 · $235k · revenue +69%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $220k · revenue +34%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- TVTHE VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $50k · 89% of their budget
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC FBO YWCAone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Housing unlimited, inc. is a non-profit dedicated to providing affordable, permanent housing opportunities and independent living for adults in mental health recovery.
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…
Provide affordable housing for low income and moderate-income families and seniors.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
To further healthcare, education and community involvement in eastern kentucky and southern west virginia through philanthropy and fundraising for appalachia.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arundel Community Development Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% 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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