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Deerbrook Charitable Trust
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $972k
- $250k+13 grants · $32M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $10,525,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $5,940,610 |
| MEDSTAR HEALTH GIFT ACCOUNT | $3,159,751 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $2,900,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY | $2,238,581 |
| BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM | $2,234,871 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC | $1,300,000 |
| VISION TO LEARN | $1,175,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON- MAIN CONCETRATION ACCOUNT | $940,889 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANATEE COUNTY | $492,500 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT | $483,129 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS | $350,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE | $250,000 |
| MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE | $232,000 |
| WILLS EYE HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Deerbrook Charitable Trust’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.
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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2022, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $486k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2020–2022 · $21M · revenue +8%
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION3× · 2020–2022 · $15M · revenue +35%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY3× · 2020–2022 · $3.6M · revenue +74%
Funded once
- BMBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INCone grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue -78%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +15%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $870k · revenue +67%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Pbc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 71 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds The Children's Law Center ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER ↗
- Who funds Urban Youth Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion For Life Corporation ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
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 · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Impactassetsinc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Deerbrook Charitable Trust 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Pride of Baltimore Inc — 30% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Rectory School 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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