· Private foundation
Dalton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS | $5,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER | $3,000 |
| THE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE | $2,500 |
| HOSPICE OF VERO BEACH | $2,300 |
| INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| AVALON FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TALBOT HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| YOUTH GUIDE MENTORING | $275 |
| TALBOT GARDEN CLUB | $165 |
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, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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 +83% since the first grant, against +75% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- THTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +99%
- AFAVALON FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +61%
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +610%
Funded once
- TOTHE ORCHESTRA OF THE AMERICASone grant, 2022 · $4k
- UOUNIV OF MD SHORE MEDICAL CENTER EASTONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- TPThe Potomac Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +31%
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.
Our mission is to provide educational opportunities to the citizens of our county so they may learn from the past and use that knowledge to build a future which preserves talbot county as one of the best places to live.
Allocate government funds to art programs in talbot county, md and make sub-grants to eligible and deserving arts programs of non-profit and government-related organizations and schools.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
As stewards, talesin preservation, inc.'s dual mission is to preserve the cultural, built and natural enviornments that comprise the taliesin property and to conduct public educational and cultural programming that provides a greater…
Talbot humane co provides a safe and healthy environment for unwanted companion animals in its care; places adoptable companion animals in good homes; protects all animals from cruelty and neglect; and reduces the unwanted companion animal…
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…
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
To provide an early childhood through 8th grade waldorf education to develop independent, critical thinkers with a strong sense of social responsibility
The mission of the foundation for talbert house is to provide financial and fundraising support that leaves a legacy for talbert house to provide critical services in the future.
At talisman, we believe in the transformative, healing power of horses and our natural environment. we serve, empower all, and lead by example with compassion, dignity, and inclusivity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quail Valley Charities 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED FUND OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT COUNTY GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Dock Street Foundation · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Ryan-Richtsmeier Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark 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 Dalton Family 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.
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance 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.
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