· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $586,310 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $914,169 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $327,859 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $222k
- $250k+1 grant · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURKE FAMILY FUND | $265,700 |
| VARIOUS | $43,356 |
| CHARLES AND PATRICIA WITTE FUND | $37,600 |
| WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL-1980 | $32,995 |
| THE MISS MARYLAND SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $31,378 |
| JOHN GRASON STEFFEY SCHOLARSHIP | $30,000 |
| THE CRO FOUNDATION | $20,500 |
| VALLEY LIONS CLUB FUND | $16,050 |
| TAYLOR W BARNES MEMORIAL SCHOLARSH | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF COMPASSION-JESSE'S JOU | $9,708 |
| RITA M MEDEIROS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ENGINEERS | $8,000 |
| BASTRESS TEUBER FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE DOUGLAS E METZ CAMP THRIVE | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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 +172% since the first grant, against +70% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k 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
- ABATHLETIC BOOSTERS FOR WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $58k · revenue +424% · 34% of their budget
- FCFRANCISCAN CENTER INC3× · 2018–2020 · $46k · revenue +172%
- SEST ELIZABETH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2022 · $37k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- WCWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +71%
- CCCARROLL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $28k
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.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
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.
We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
Lutheran social ministries is organized to receive and administer funds for, to establish, maintain, supervise, coordinate, assist and perform planning and other functions for the benefit of, or to carry out the charitable, educational,…
The partnership strives to mobilize the citizens, organizations, and resources of carroll county, maryland in a collaborative effort to promote and sustain good health in the community.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The organization's mission is to solicit and receive contributions and grants from the general public and to hold, invest, and administer these funds and pay expenditures for the benefit of the university of maryland in baltimore and to…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Gilchrist hospice care is organized and operated excludively as a nonprofit charitable and educational organization within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code for the following purposes: (1) to develop, own,…
Carroll university provides a superior education, rooted in its presbyterian and liberal arts heritage, and draws upon its christian tradition to prepare all students for vocational success, lifelong learning and service in a diverse and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carroll Hospital Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pipe Creek Cemetery of the Church of the Brethren Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 61 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 ATHLETIC BOOSTERS FOR WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST ELIZABETH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds PIPE CREEK CEMETERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 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: 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
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 Community Foundation of Carroll County 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.
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% 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.