· Charitable trust
Charles County Charitable Trust
The mission of the Charles County Charitable Trust is to improve quality of life in the community by strengthening the local nonprofit sector through educational programs and grant assistance.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $1,401,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,446,246 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,646 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $882k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
- $250k+1 grant · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Poiema Movement | $320,000 |
| LIfestyles of Maryland | $60,000 |
| MD Crime Victims Resource | $50,000 |
| Health Partners | $50,000 |
| Hospice of Charles County | $45,000 |
| Center for Abused Persons | $45,000 |
| Our Place Waldorf | $45,000 |
| Ivy & Pearls | $42,250 |
| Spring Dell Center | $40,000 |
| The Center for Children | $40,000 |
| Melwood HorticulturalTraining | $35,000 |
| Providence of Maryland | $33,950 |
| RAW Juice and Wellness | $33,750 |
| US Bomb Technician Assn | $33,750 |
| Christmas in April - Chas Co | $31,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 11 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- PMPOIEMA MOVEMENT INC4× · 2022–2025 · $953k · revenue +85% · 32% of their budget
- LOLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $649k · revenue +235%
- SDSPRING DELL CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $568k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- HOHOSPICE OF CHARLES COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue +10%
- FOFRIENDS OF OLD WALDORF SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $45k
- GBGreater Baden Medical Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +152%
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.
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.
Provide children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with community and employment services.
The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.
Shared support maryland, inc. assists people in developing and maintaining the self-direction of their services and support, fosters and grows community connections and relationships, and values the ambitions and goals of the people we…
Community mediation to resolve child custody, neighborhood disputes, and other matters rather than having them settled in court.
The mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with people of all ages and abilities and those who support them in the community to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, and a meaningful community life.
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
Partners in care, inc is dedicated to helping older adults live independently in their own homes and remain actively engaged in their communities.
The mission of the Charles County Charitable Trust is to improve quality of life in the community by strengthening the local nonprofit sector through educational programs and grant assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence of Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kidsstream Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 92 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 POIEMA MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING DELL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS & REFERRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Christmas in April Charles County ↗
- Who funds Charles County Childrens Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MARYLAND CENTER FOR FAMILY ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center ↗
- Who funds PROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Our Place Waldorf Inc ↗
- Who funds MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Charles County Meals on Wheels Inc Meals on Wheels ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charles County ↗
- Who funds BAY COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Maryland Tri-County Community Action Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES COUNTY HARC INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS SUPPORTED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MARYLAND CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds KIDSSTREAM INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD THRIVE ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHARLES COUNTY NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORT TOBACCO PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CHARLES COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR SOUTHERN MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds Ivy and Pearls of Southern Maryland Community Charities ↗
- Who funds END HUNGER IN CHARLES COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHARLES COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIONS CAMP MERRICK 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: United Way of Southern Maryland · United Way of Charles County Inc · Smeco Charitable Foundation Inc · Gordon Croft Foundation Inc · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Give Back Foundation · The Maryland Food Bank Inc · Chesapeake Charities Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · 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 Charles County Charitable Trust 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.
- Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland — 100% of income from government
- Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc — 81% of income from government
- Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc — 76% of income from government
- Southern Maryland Center for Family Advocacy Inc — 55% of income from government
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 53% of income from government
- Southern Maryland Tri-County Community Action Committee Inc — 32% of income from government
- Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Baden Medical Services Inc — 20% of income from government
- Promise Resource Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 19% of income from government
- Center for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- Southern Maryland Center for Independent Living Inc — 13% of income from government
- Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center — 9% of income from government
- The Arc of Southern Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Jude House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spring Dell Center Inc — 1% 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.