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Chesapeake Charities Inc

The mission of chesapeake charities, inc.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$240kHuman Services$210kEnvironment$207kHealth$104kHousing & Shelter$92kPhilanthropy$37kEducation$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $135,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $165,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UM CHARLES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$47,500
HAVEN MINISTRIES INC$21,650
RUBY'S RAINBOW$20,000
NOT MY CHILD INC$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA$10,000
SAIL HOME INC$10,000
FOR ALL SEASONS$8,000
HEALTH PARTNERS INC$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SAIL HOME INC: $10k → 7%LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%CHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $10k → 7%LIFESTYLES OF SOUTHER MD: $40k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$304k · 5 repeat orgs$623k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +146% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
18

Total granted

$304k
$498k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+146%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LO
    LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $190k · revenue +172%
  • AA
    Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue +146%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2019 · $210k · revenue +20%
  • TD
    THE DOBSON FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $37k · revenue +92%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +51%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chesapeake Rivers Association

Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay particularly the Severn River

Environment
2
Earthreports Inc

To provide vital advocacy to help maintain and restore one of marylands most valuable resources, the patuxent river.

Environment
3
Shorerivers Inc

Shorerivers protects and restores eastern shore waterways through science-based advocacy, restoration and education.

Environment
4
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment
5
Harry R Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology

The Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…

Food & Nutrition
6
Middle Patuxent Environmental Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Sustainable Chesapeake

Cultivating prosperity for farms, business and communities through innovative environmental solutions.

Public Benefit
8
Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development

The Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development Councils WMRC&D mission is to build and sustain resource conservation programs which raise the quality of social economic and environmental development in our region.

Environment
9
Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc

Plan, promote implement science-based sustainable shellfish restoration, aquaculture, and wild fishery activities to protect our environment, support our economy preserve our culture heritage

—
10
Southern Maryland Rc&D Board Inc

Working in partnership with community groups and organizations, southern maryland resource conservation & development inc. is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the region by enabling the people and promoting the wise use of our…

Environment
11
Chesapeake Islands Research Center Inc
Environment
12
Maryland Recreation & Parks Assoc Inc

Advocate and promote public parks, recreation, and environmental conservation efforts.provide education and training to parks and recreation industry professionals.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arundel Rivers Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Dobson 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $210,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $20,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & N…WEST RHODE RIVERKEEPER INC: $15,785 · OtherOUR CREEKS & CONSERVANCY INC: $13,446 · OtherFARMING 4 HUNGER INC: $30,000 · OtherFARMING 4 HUNGER INCKENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $12,125 · Other+5 more: $36,957 · Other+5 moreLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 · Human ServicesLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FO…CHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORTED ACCESS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAnne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy Inc: $39,968 · EnvironmentAnne Arundel County…ANNAPOLIS GREEN INC: $31,332 · EnvironmentANNAPOLIS GREEN INCARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC: $28,667 · EnvironmentARUNDEL RIVERS FEDE…SPA CREEK CONSERVANCY INC: $22,872 · EnvironmentSPA CREEK CONSERVAN…THE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $17,108 · EnvironmentTHE SEVERN RIVER AS…ALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC: $13,769 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR THE CH…SCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC: $9,775 · EnvironmentSCENIC RIVERS LAND …Civista Medical Center Inc: $47,500 · HealthNOT MY CHILD INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE DOBSON FOUNDATION INC: $36,712 · PhilanthropyREBUILDING TOGETHER- ANNE ARUNDEL: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $21,650 · Housing & ShelterChristmas in April Charles County: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationRUBY'S RAINBOW: $20,000 · Education
Other$338,313Human Services$210,000Environment$163,491Health$57,500Philanthropy$56,712Housing & Shelter$51,650Education$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $210,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCivista Medical Center Inc: $47,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy Inc: $39,968 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARMING 4 HUNGER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC: $28,667 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSPA CREEK CONSERVANCY INC: $22,872 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetHAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $21,650 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER- ANNE ARUNDEL: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRUBY'S RAINBOW: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetChristmas in April Charles County: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $17,108 over 1y, 15% of budgetWEST RHODE RIVERKEEPER INC: $15,785 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC: $13,769 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR CREEKS & CONSERVANCY INC: $13,446 over 1y, 15% of budgetKENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $12,125 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNOT MY CHILD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSUPPORTED ACCESS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC: $9,775 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOR ALL SEASONS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Partners Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation …The Keith Campbell Fo…Norman J Fisher and D…Charles County Charit…National Fish and Wil…United Way of Souther…English Family Founda…Friel Foundation IncChesapeake Bay TrustGs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…
Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation · Charles County Charitable Trust · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · United Way of Southern Maryland · English Family Foundation Co Amie Brooks · Friel Foundation Inc · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chesapeake Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chesapeake Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Farming 4 Hunger Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: 28% of income from government
  • For All Seasons Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Arundel Rivers Federation Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Chesterwye Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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