· Private foundation
Dock Street 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TALBOT THRIVE CO COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE | $60,000 |
| MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $47,500 |
| BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS | $42,600 |
| MID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE LAKE CLINIC USA | $20,000 |
| TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| ACADEMY ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| MPT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOR ALL SEASONS | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
| SHORERIVERS | $5,000 |
| EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER | $5,000 |
| KHALED HOSSEINI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| SPY COMMUNITY MEDIA FUND | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
81 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 11 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- FAFOR ALL SEASONS INC5× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +279%
- BABUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue ×15
- MEMID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC6× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TWTHIRD WAY CULTURAL ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · 62% of their budget
- JAJOHN AND JANICE WYATT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
- WWHCPone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
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 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
Chesapeake bay trust is a public, nonprofit grant-making organization created to promote public awareness of and participation in the restoration and protection of the chesapeake bay and its tributaries. (see schedule o for continuation)…
The annapolis maritime museum educates youth and adults about the annapolis areas rich maritime heritage and the ecology of the chesapeake bay through programs, exhibits, and community events. continued on schedule o
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
Long term recovery response in the counties of maryland's eastern shore
Our mission is to create an environment of discovery about oneself, the peoples, the technologies and the ecologies of the Chesapeake Bay area for all children and the child in us all.
Cultivating prosperity for farms, business and communities through innovative environmental solutions.
Chesapeake shakespeare company creates community through energetic, joyful, and accessible classic theatre, bringing our art to baltimore, the state of maryland, and beyond through innovative and comprehensible productions of shakespeare…
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. 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 24 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 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 135 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 FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MODERN WARRIOR LIVE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN AND JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KHALED HOSSEINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLERGY UNITED FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF SANDTOWN ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
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 · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Qlarant Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The May Foundation of Maryland
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 Dock Street 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.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Kent Cultural Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Upper Shore Aging Inc — 24% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% 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.