· Private foundation
F Struben Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MD | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HARFORD LAND TRUST INC | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH BAPTIST COLLEGIATE MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $2,500 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $500 |
| NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS | $500 |
| HOPE CENTER OF MARYLAND | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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 +139% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- UOUniversity of Md St Joes Med Ctr3× · 2019–2021 · $24k
- UOUniversity of MD St Joe's Medical Center2× · 2022–2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2021–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM MILL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +38%
- UOUniversity of MD School of Medicineone grant, 2023 · $5k
- BCBaptist Collegiate Ministriesone grant, 2021 · $2k
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 provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To augment volunteer fire fighting and emergency medical services provided to harford county, maryland.
To promote successful volunteer fire and emergency medical service operations within harford county, maryland.
Fire, Rescue & Emergency Medical Services
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
The purpose of the howard county medical center foundation shall be to preserve and enhance the services of howard county medical center.
Volunteer fire fighting
Providing fire protection to the surrounding communities.
Fire protection and rescue services.
Volunteer Fire Company
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Harford County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Jerusalem Mill Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 29 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 Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HARFORD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM MILL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company ↗
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: The Dresher Foundation Inc · Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund 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 F Struben Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Harford Land Trust Inc — 15% 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.