· Private foundation
First United Community Dreams Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of FIRST UNITED COMMUNITY DREAMS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANDON'S LIBRARY FBO WGW TOURNAMENT | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE BACKPACK PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK | $5,000 |
| OAKLAND YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CUMBERLAND SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY FBO FROSTBURG LUNCH PROGRAM | $3,500 |
| ASPIRE SERVICES CENTER | $3,500 |
| EVERGREEN CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HOBY MARYLAND LEADERSHIP SEMINAR | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY MARKETS FOOD BOX PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| THE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| BLACK OWNED BERKELEY COUNTY | $2,400 |
| EMBASSY THEATRE CORPORATION | $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 (FY22–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue -31%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB3× · 2022–2024 · $17k
- UWUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
Funded once
- TMTHE MARTINSBURG ROCK SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +153% · 32% of their budget
- T1TEAM 1629 GARRETT COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $8k
- AFAGING & FAMILY SERVICES OF MINERAL COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
To help revitalize downtown Martinsburg, WV
To provide quality ambulance service to the residents of marion county, west virginia.
To provide services and advocacy to help empower persons with disabilities to lead self-directed, independent and productive lives in their community.
To provide housing, food and religious counseling for the needy and underprivileged.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.
To assist in the economic revitalization of the historic greenmount avenue commercial district in baltimore city through business development, events and promotions and beautification efforts.
Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.
Create opportunities for independence and personal success for people with different abilities in inclusive communities.
To serve the general public as an independent, civic news organization that tells stories of importance to West Virginians about issues and challenges facing their communities.
Promotion of tourism
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee and the most unlike its peers is Tony M Music and Arts Foundation in. 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 17 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 59 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARTINSBURG ROCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AGING & FAMILY SERVICES OF MINERAL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CTR INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds RIM2RIM ELITE INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT MENTORS INC ↗
- Who funds CINDY'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BRIDGEPORT RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DOLEMAN BLACK HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SPANISH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF MARYLAND 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: Garrett Cooperative Ministry Inc · Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 First United Community Dreams 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee — 32% of income from government
- Spanish-Speaking Community of Maryland Inc — 10% 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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