· Private foundation
E Bowen & Frances H Quillin Foundat
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEVENSON METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $4,000 |
| CEDAR CHAPEL SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| FOUR STEPS RIDING PROGRAM | $3,617 |
| US KENNELS | $3,000 |
| ASSATEAGUE COASTAL TRUST | $3,000 |
| LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| OCEAN CITY LIFE SAVING MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF GOD | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| OC SURF CLUB | $2,000 |
| RACKLIFFE HOUSE TRUST | $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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +55%
- MCMARYLAND COASTAL BAYS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +255%
- BHBERLIN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- AUATLANTIC UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TATYRES AME CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
The society provides an animal shelter for the residents of caroline county, md
The organization works to conserve wild or underdeveloped open space, scenic areas, and historic landmarks in the casco bay region.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
The humane society is working to make a difference in the lives of animals and the people who love and care for them, and is dedicated to relieving the pain and suffering of animals through education and direct intervention.
Animal sheltering
To rescue injured, sick and abandoned marine mammals and to educate the public about what to do if they find one of these marine mammals.
Land Conservation
Animal welfare
The organization is dedicated to preserving and promoting the wooden boatbuilding heritage of maryland's eastern shore with a museum and a wooden boatbuilding center.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Coastal Bays Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berlin Heritage 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.
12 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. 12 of the 35 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 RACKLIFFE HOUSE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds U S KENNELS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND COASTAL BAYS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERLIN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ASSATEAGUE COASTAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds STORIES LOVE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds DIAKONIA INC ↗
- Who funds BERLIN FIRE COMPANY 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 the Eastern Shor · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 E Bowen & Frances H Quillin Foundat 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.
- Maryland Coastal Bays Foundation Inc — 59% of income from government
- Diakonia Inc — 51% of income from government
- Hudson Health Services Inc — 3% 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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