· Community foundation
Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor
Inspiring community philanthropy and connecting people who care with causes that matter.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR’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 238 grants below total $8,008,101 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,590,280 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $582,179 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 $10k83 grants · $599k
- $10k–50k118 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $663,465 |
| HORIZONS DELMARVA INC | $375,540 |
| WICOMICO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $348,300 |
| TIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $260,597 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC | $205,291 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC | $173,787 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC | $165,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - RICHARD HAZEL YOUTH CENTER | $158,770 |
| OCEAN CITY PARAMEDICS FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| EASTERN SHORE DENTAL SOCIETY STATE OF MARYLAND | $135,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL INC | $131,836 |
| ART LEAGUE OF OCEAN CITY INC | $130,718 |
| MAC INC | $117,564 |
| WICOMICO PUBLIC LIBRARIES | $112,929 |
| ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $112,845 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
209 repeat relationships — 161 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 46 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $637k 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
- WCWOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +398% · 89% of their budget
- DCDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +5% · 30% of their budget
- TFTIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +172%
Funded once
- OCOCEAN CITY MUSEUM SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $281k · revenue -36% · 42% of their budget
- SASALVATION ARMY-RICHARD HAZEL YOUTH CENTERone grant, 2019 · $145k
- FBFAITH BAPTIST CHURCH OF SALISBURY MARYLANDone grant, 2019 · $140k
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.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
To serve as a forum for the resolution of region-wide issues and the attainment of regional goals in the southern maryland region
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
To develop arts and public spaces in the community; to spur economic development and the quality of community life in hyattsville; to encourage widespread community leadership for community revitalization; to promote educational activities…
To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay
Eastern shore land conservancy is committed to preserving and sustaining the vibrant communities of the eastern shore and the lands and waters that connect them.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Each of the enumerated activities is substantially related and significantly contributes to the social interaction and camaraderie of the entire membership of the organization.
The mission of the washington county free library system is to continually improve our service to the public by:* providing the public with free access to library materials in a variety of formats* promoting community enrichment, economic…
The mission of chesapeake charities, inc. is to provide innovative leadership and quality services that encourage charitable giving, build community resources, and enable donors continued on schedule o
Promote ocean city, maryland commerce
Trade association for electric cooperatives
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tidalhealth Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Main Street Princess Anne. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
237 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. 237 of the 349 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS DELMARVA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY ZOO COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds MAC INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGINGINC ↗
- Who funds HELP AND OUTREACH POINT OF ENTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CITY PARAMEDICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE DENTAL SOCIETY INC STATE OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SALISBURY ELKS LODGE 817 INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY FIRE COMPANY NO 2 INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Art League of Ocean City Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CITY MUSEUM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL 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: Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Salisbury Wicomico Economic Development Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc · Donnie Williams Foundation Inc · Richard a Henson Foundation Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Synepuxent Post No 166 the American Legion Inc · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Philip & Barbara Long Family Foundation Inc · Jack P and Anne R Smith 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 the Eastern Shor 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.
- Blind Industries & Services of Maryland — 100% of income from government
- Smith Island United Inc — 96% of income from government
- Worcester County Arts Council Inc — 89% of income from government
- Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council Inc — 67% of income from government
- Diakonia Inc — 51% of income from government
- The Maryland School for the Blind — 47% of income from government
- It Takes a Village to Help Our Children Inc — 46% of income from government
- Tri Community Mediation Inc — 27% of income from government
- Life Crisis Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Ocean City Development Corporation — 23% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc — 7% of income from government
- Art League of Ocean City Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Raymond a Wood Foundation 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.