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Community Foundation of Harford County Inc
Support the not-for-profit tax exempt organizations of harford county, maryland.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $577,559 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $674,738 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,179 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $331k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL | $128,500 |
| INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC | $102,500 |
| HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $50,459 |
| Y OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $50,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM | $38,000 |
| UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| FALLSTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| WELL OF HOPE INC | $27,300 |
| EXTREME FAMILY OUTREACH INC | $18,200 |
| BROTHERS OF CHARITY | $16,800 |
| HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE | $10,750 |
| NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC | $10,000 |
| UMBC FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BEL AIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| STEPPING STONE FARM MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $277k 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
- ICINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC2× · 2023–2025 · $203k · revenue +46%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +97%
- LILASOS Inc3× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- PBPRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -39%
- CHCULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +25%
- JCJOHN CARROLL SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
The organization provides mental healthcare to the communities in harford county, maryland.
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
Support the not-for-profit tax exempt organizations of harford county, maryland.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
HC DrugFree provides prevention, treatment, recovery, and health, wellness resources and education to help Howard County residents develop knowledge and skills to understand and address behavioral health disorders substance abuse and…
Partnering with Anne Arundel County families and individuals that are working towards self-sufficiency and addiction recovery by providing needed food and resources.
Dedication to maintaining and improving the health of the people in its communities through an integrated health delivery system that provides high quality care to all.
To promote, protect and represent the business, economic, social and educational interests of those engaged in farming and agricultural business undertakings in harford county, maryland.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
Housing unlimited, inc. is a non-profit dedicated to providing affordable, permanent housing opportunities and independent living for adults in mental health recovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harford Family House Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Life Christian Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 43 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 INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YATIMA GROUP FUND ↗
- Who funds LASOS Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Extreme Family Outreach Minist ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HARFORD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERT P CLOSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 755 Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA ↗
- Who funds MASON-DIXON COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BEL AIR DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRANDON TOLSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Because International Corp ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TASTE WISE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocate CASA of Harford County Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMECOMING PROJECT 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: The Dresher Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Inc · The Greater Bel Air Community Foundation Inc · Society Italian-American Business · Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc · The Anne Lindsey Otenasek Charitable Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc · The Emmert Hobbs Foundation Inc · Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Inc
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 Harford County Inc 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.
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Harford Land Trust Inc — 15% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Harford Community Action Agency Inc — 9% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% 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.