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Claude a & Blanche McCubbin Abbott Charitable Trust at a glance

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Claude a & Blanche McCubbin Abbott Charitable Trust

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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$15kEmployment$12kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$7kEducation$6kHuman Services$4kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$380k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HEALTH WAGON$2,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS CENTRAL MD$2,000
THE LIVING CLASSROOMS FDTN$1,500
GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION INC$1,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$1,500
MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS$1,500
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$1,200
MAASAI DEVELOPMENT INC$600
THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY$300
BLOSSOMS OF HOPE$82
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT HOPE: $2k → 14%MAASAI DEVELOPMENT INC: $600 → 3%CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIA: $500 → 18%THE HEALTH WAGON: $3k → 18%THE HEALTH WAGON: $2k → 22%GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION INC: $2k → 6%THE CAVANAGH HOUSE: $500 → 11%PC'S FOR PEOPLE BALTIMORE: $500 → 19%MAASAI DEVELOPMENT INC: $600 → 3%THE HEALTH WAGON: $2k → 18%THE HEALTH WAGON: $2k → 22%GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION INC: $1k → 6%THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $580 → 11%THE LIVING CLASSROOMS FDTN: $2k → 19%MAASAI DEVELOPMENT INC: $500 → 3%THE HEALTH WAGON: $2k → 18%GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION INC: $1k → 6%THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $300 → 11%THE LIVING CLASSROOMS FDTN: $2k → 19%MAASAI DEVELOPMENT INC: $300 → 3%THE HEALTH WAGON: $2k → 18%BLOSSOMS OF HOPE: $82 → 6%THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $250 → 11%THE LIVING CLASSROOMS FDTN: $1k → 19%MAASAI DEVELOPMENT INC: $200 → 3%HOWARD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200 → 6%THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $250 → 11%THE LIVING CLASSROOMS FDTN: $1k → 19%THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $250 → 11%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEA: $2k → 19%THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $200 → 11%THE LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEA: $2k → 19%THE LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CHESAPEAKE: $2k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $2k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $1k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $1k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $1k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $1k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $1k → 19%THE WOMEN'S HOUSING COALITION: $800 → 19%BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $500 → 19%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 14 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$62k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+7%

Still filing today

57%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +18%
  • MN
    MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +120%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +7%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CHESAPEAKE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS SIDNEY KIMMEL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
3
Maryland Patient Safety Center Inc

To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.

Health
4
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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5
Mercy Corps

Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.

International
6
Mercy Medical Center

Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…

Health
7
National Health Care for Homeless Council

Grounded in human rights and social justice, the nhchc mission is to build an equitable, high-quality health care system through training, research, and advocacy in the movement to end homelessness.

Human Services
8
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
9
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
10
Medstar Southern Md Hospital Center Inc

See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, medstar southern maryland hospital center's (medstar southern maryland) mission is to uphold its commitment to the community by continuously promoting, maintaining, and improving health…

Health
11
The United Way of Central Maryland Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives by empowering leaders and mobilizing the caring power of our communities. we have been empowering families to become self-sufficient by focusing on the building blocks of a better life: education,…

Philanthropy
12
Health Care for the Homeless Inc

Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maasai Development Incorporated. 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

12 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. 12 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HEALTH WAGON: $8,500 · OtherTHE HEALTH WAGONTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $8,400 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCAMERICAN RED CROSS CENTRAL MD: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS CENTRAL MDTHE LIVING CLASSROOMS FDTN: $5,500 · OtherTHE LIVING CLASSROOMS FDTNGRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION INC: $3,500 · OtherGRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION INCGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $3,500 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INCTHE LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Other+9 more: $7,100 · Other+9 moreMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $6,700 · HealthMARYLAND NEW DIRECT…ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $3,000 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH WAG…Maasai Development Incorporated: $2,200 · HealthMaasai Development …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,100 · InternationalMEDECINS S…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · InternationalPROJECT HO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,100 · Human ServicesTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $1,830 · EnvironmentTHE WOMEN'S HOUSING COALITION INC: $800 · Housing & ShelterTHE CAVANAGH HOUSE: $500 · Housing & ShelterBLOSSOMS OF HOPE THE HOWARD COUNTY CHER: $82 · Community Improvement
Other$45,500Health$11,900International$6,600Human Services$3,100Environment$1,830Housing & Shelter$1,300Community Improvement$82

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 budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $8,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $6,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaasai Development Incorporated: $2,200 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $1,830 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOUSING COALITION INC: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAVANAGH HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
  • Who funds Maasai Development Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAVANAGH HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BLOSSOMS OF HOPE THE HOWARD COUNTY CHER ↗

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.

The United Way of Cen…Baltimore Community F…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The United Way of Central Maryland IncMD13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Claude a & Blanche McCubbin Abbott Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claude a & Blanche McCubbin Abbott Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland New Directions Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Howard County Conservancy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Women's Housing Coalition Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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