Maryland · 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $320,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $235k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Charles County Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $1.4M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.6M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.8M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $920k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $742k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $779k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poiema Movement Inc | $952,500 | 4 | 32% |
| Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc | $648,700 | 8 | 4% |
| Spring Dell Center Inc | $568,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington | $533,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Health Partners Inc | $515,795 | 8 | 8% |
| Community Crisis & Referral Center Inc | $401,600 | 8 | 9% |
| Center for Children Inc | $401,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Christmas in April Charles County | $344,240 | 8 | 70% |
| Charles County Childrens Aid Society Inc | $343,300 | 8 | 18% |
| Southern Maryland Center for Family Advocacy Inc | $254,800 | 8 | 4% |
Show all 92 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Charles County Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Charles County Charitable Trust
- How much does Charles County Charitable Trust give?
- Charles County Charitable Trust reported 46 itemized grants totaling $1,401,600, out of $1,446,246 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles County Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Human Services (18%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Charles County Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Poiema Movement Inc ($953k), Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc ($649k), Spring Dell Center Inc ($568k).
- Does Charles County Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles County Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Southern Maryland, United Way of Charles County Inc, Smeco Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Charles County Charitable Trust based?
- Charles County Charitable Trust is based in MD.
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