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Community Foundation of Carroll County

The mission of the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY is to maintain and enhance the quality of life in the community of carroll county through philanthropic means.

$914k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
82%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$586k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$265,700
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 82% of the organizations Community Foundation of Carroll County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$586k82%
FY202311$250k82%
FY20229$321k44%
FY202110$276k60%
FY20206$104k33%
FY20198$86k63%
FY20189$98k100%
FY20177$179kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$448kPhilanthropy$391kHealth$245kHuman Services$102kRecreation & Sports$85kInternational$38kArts & Culture$38kPublic Benefit$26kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Community Foundation of Carroll County by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Athletic Boosters for Westminster High School Inc$58,495234%
Franciscan Center Inc$46,00031%
St Elizabeth School Foundation Inc$37,20032%
Carroll Hospital Center Inc$37,00040%
Warrior Canine Connection Inc$30,9001n/a
Helping Up Mission Inc$29,55330%
Towson University Foundation Inc$26,00010%
Carroll Hospital Center Foundation Inc$26,00030%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$21,71410%
Calvert Hall College of Baltimore City$15,7501n/a
Catholic Charities$15,0001n/a
American Life League Inc$12,50010%
St Frances Academy$11,3001n/a
The Board of Trustees of the Carroll County Public Library$10,4391n/a
McDaniel College Inc$10,0001n/a
Pipe Creek Cemetery of the Church of the Brethren Inc$9,425110%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$7,50010%
The Historical Society of Carroll County Maryland Inc$7,50012%
Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery Association$7,0001n/a
Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair Inc$6,00015%

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Foundation of Carroll County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAthletic Boosters for Westminster High School Inc: $58,495 over 2y, 34% of budgetFranciscan Center Inc: $46,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSt Elizabeth School Foundation Inc: $37,200 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCarroll Hospital Center Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Up Mission Inc: $29,553 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTowson University Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCarroll Hospital Center Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $21,714 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Life League Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPipe Creek Cemetery of the Church of the Brethren Inc: $9,425 over 1y, 10% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historical Society of Carroll County Maryland Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCarroll County 4-H & FFA Fair Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Community Foundation of Carroll County

How much does Community Foundation of Carroll County give?
Community Foundation of Carroll County reported 22 itemized grants totaling $586,310, out of $914,169 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Community Foundation of Carroll County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Philanthropy (21%), Health (13%).
Who are Community Foundation of Carroll County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Athletic Boosters for Westminster High School Inc ($58k), Franciscan Center Inc ($46k), St Elizabeth School Foundation Inc ($37k).
Does Community Foundation of Carroll County fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Carroll County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Community Foundation of Carroll County based?
Community Foundation of Carroll County is based in MD.

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 61 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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