· Private foundation
Buckingham School Frederick County Md
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 $10k29 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY IN AFRICA | $14,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FNDATION | $6,000 |
| PRINCETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL HARMONY WORKS | $5,000 |
| PBS | $4,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,700 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION | $3,700 |
| GBMC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SEVERN RIVERKEEPER PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| GILMAN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $2,000 |
| CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE | $2,000 |
| MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY CULTURE | $2,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
123 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 98 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2022 · $48k · revenue +51%- GFGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +24%
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- SCSMITH COLLEGE-GEN SCHOLARSHIP PROGone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MVMUSICA VIVA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +64%
- MVMT VERNON OF BALTIMORE PRESERVATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peninsula School of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mpala Wildlife 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 169 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
- Who funds JAFFREY CENTER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc · W P Carey Foundation Inc · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan Foundation Inc · James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co
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 Buckingham School Frederick County Md 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.
- Land Preservation Trust Inc — 64% of income from government
- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore 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.