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Crescent Cities Charities Inc

To provide educational assistance to promising students with financial need and to provide grants and programs to worthy charities and community organizations in prince george's county and surrounding region.

$886k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$668k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$321kEducation$309kArts & Culture$174kHuman Services$152kHousing & Shelter$126kYouth Development$81kPhilanthropy$53kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $218k
  • $250k+1 grant · $668k
$667,787
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$667,787
Individual grant recipient$218,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TOUCHING CENTER: $8k → 11%MICHAEL R WALKER GENESIS EMPLOYEE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SERVE OUR WILLING WARRIORS: $10k → 7%SERVE OUR WILLING WARRIORS: $7k → 7%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $10k → 14%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of Crescent Cities Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Crescent Cities Charities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 32 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
25

Total granted

$1.0M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+14%

Still filing today

88%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $886k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • YF
    YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $81k · revenue +44%
  • TJ
    THE JP HOME INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $64k · revenue +42% · 26% of their budget
  • BG
    BELLE GROVE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $51k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOUSE OF RUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • MR
    MICHAEL R WALKER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -54%
  • DC
    DORCHESTER CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Commanders Foundation

The Washington Commanders Foundation is committed to building a more vibrant and enriched DMV community by investing in education, honoring public service, and broadening access to youth football programs. By harnessing the transformative…

Philanthropy
2
Montgomery County Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
3
The George Washington Foundation

The mission of the george washington foundation is to enhance the public understanding of the lives, values, and legacies of george washington, fielding and betty washington lewis and their family members, particularly in the broader…

Arts & Culture
4
Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training Inc

To provide extensive comprehensive services to eradicate homelessness among the military veteran community. MCVET participants work through recovery, work toward maintaining livable wages, and permanent housing solutions. The organization…

Housing & Shelter
5
Veterans Healing Farm

Veterans Healing Farm enhances the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of our nations Veterans and their families.

Public Benefit
6
Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc

To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…

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7
Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc

Support organization

Health
8
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

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.

Health
9
Families of the Wounded Fund Inc

Families of the wounded fund, inc (fotwf) provides financial assistance to families of service members or us agents who were wounded in combat or injured in support of combat operations while the wounded receive treatment at various…

Human Services
10
Montgomery Hospice Inc

To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion. to bring comfort by providing compassionate, professional care to community residents who are facing serious illness and loss. to provide dignity for the…

Human Services
11
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
12
Georgetown Heritage

Promote and present the history of Georgetown - Washington, DC. Including working with the National Park Service to improve historical areas, create information centers, and to restore the C&O Canal and Barge in Georgetown.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fight for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anacostia Watershed Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
6,798/47,270

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.

05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $667,787 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $218,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC — $51,000 · Other+26 more — $397,900 · Other+26 moreTHE JP HOME INC — $64,000 · HealthTHE JP HOME IN…SPROUT THERAPEUTIC RIDING & EDUCATION CE — $47,225 · HealthSPROUT THERAPE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $38,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDR…HOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC — $31,400 · HealthHOPE CONNECTIO…PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $31,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALIN…CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER — $21,000 · HealthCLOVERLEAF EQU…PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON INC — $20,000 · HealthPREVENTION OF …+3 more — $19,200 · Health+3 moreBELLE GROVE INC — $50,500 · Arts & CultureShenandoah Valley Music Festival — $33,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LINCOLN THEATRE INC — $27,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD ARTS FOCUS — $7,000 · Arts & CultureCedar Creek Battlefield Foundation — $6,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Arts & CultureMountain View Christian Academy — $48,500 · EducationPHILLIPS PROGRAMS — $32,000 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $32,000 · EducationEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesServe Our Willing Warriors — $17,000 · Human ServicesMICHAEL R WALKER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTOUCHING HEART — $7,500 · Human ServicesPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $6,000 · Human ServicesOperation Second Chance Inc — $28,500 · Public BenefitMIRACLE 4 MELANIE INC — $25,800 · Public BenefitBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL BOARD OF THE ROCKS INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC — $81,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,334,687Health$271,825Arts & Culture$129,000Education$112,500Human Services$85,500Public Benefit$84,300Youth Development$81,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC — $81,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JP HOME INC — $64,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC — $51,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetBELLE GROVE INC — $50,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMountain View Christian Academy — $48,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSPROUT THERAPEUTIC RIDING & EDUCATION CE — $47,225 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN APRIL - PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC — $37,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetShenandoah Valley Music Festival — $33,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPHILLIPS PROGRAMS — $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC — $31,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $31,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC — $30,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc — $28,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LINCOLN THEATRE INC — $27,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetMIRACLE 4 MELANIE INC — $25,800 over 2y, 15% of budgetFAITH AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER — $21,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetC&O CANAL TRUST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetServe Our Willing Warriors — $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPassion and Compassion Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMaryland Crime Victims' Resource Center — $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHAEL R WALKER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL BOARD OF THE ROCKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEFENSORES DE LA CUENCA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCHING HEART — $7,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetWINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ARTS FOCUS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCedar Creek Battlefield Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Nora Roberts Foundati…Greater Washington Co…Chesapeake Bay TrustPhilip L Graham Fund …The Community Foundat…National Park Foundat…Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark-Winchcole Found…Brown Advisory Charit…United Way of the Nat…T Rowe Price Program …
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · National Park Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving 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 Crescent Cities Charities 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • World Arts Focus — 100% of income from government
  • Defensores De La Cuenca — 100% of income from government
  • Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center — 53% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Crescent Cities Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Crescent Cities Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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