· Private foundation
Creston G Tate and Betty Jane Tate Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Creston G Tate and Betty Jane Tate Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Anne Arundel Co, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Creston G Tate and Betty Jane Tate Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $132k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k20 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE WASHINGTON MEDICAL CNTR | $25,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE HEART INST | $15,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND | $15,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| BELLO MACHRE | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATIO | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| PARTNERS IN CARE | $3,500 |
| PROVIDENCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MD | $2,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR THE HUMANITY OF THE CHE | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 25% 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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HOHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $85k · revenue +83%
- BWBaltimore Washington Medical Center Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $62k · revenue +4%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SSSCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAMEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HFHOPE FOR ALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +125%
- CSCARSON SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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.
Create opportunities for independence and personal success for people with different abilities in inclusive communities.
The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…
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See schedule oprovide a vehicle to develop programs, implement strategies and complete projects which further housing and community development goals and advance the common good and general welfare of communities and residents,…
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.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence of Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation 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 31 years old; the field is 18. 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.
20 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. 20 of the 40 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baltimore Washington Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELLO MACHRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds ST AGNES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 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: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Schuh Family Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The James M and Margaret V Stine Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · 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 Creston G Tate and Betty Jane Tate Foundation 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.
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc — 33% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.
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