· Private foundation
G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCDANIEL COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FREDERICK HEALTH HOSPITAL INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR CIVIL WAR | $10,000 |
| HOOD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK | $10,000 |
| MISSION OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND | $10,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF | $10,000 |
| MOUNT ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FREDERICK HEALTH HOSPICE | $9,500 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES | $9,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FREDERICK CO | $6,300 |
| CENTRO HISPANO DE FREDERICK INC | $5,500 |
| MARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,300 |
| Frederick County 4-H Therapeutic Riding | $5,200 |
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, $336k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
49 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- MCMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +64%
- BSBEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC5× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +92%
- FHFrederick Health Hospital Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- DODepartment of Housing and Human Servicesone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TATHE AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES-CULTURAL AND HERITAGE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +181%
- SHStudent Homelessness Initiativeone grant, 2023 · $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 positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
Connecting businesses and the community through leadership, advocacy and education.
Provide financial assistance to senior citizens in frederick county, maryland for transportation, medical and dental needs, housing, and utilities.
The association provides and promotes realtors education and cooperation. it promotes trust and confidence through the support of approximately 1,200 members.
The organization is dedicated to providing affordable services, resources and programs to help responsible pet owners keep their pets healthy, happy and in life-long homes.
Downtown frederick partnership works to enhance, promote and preserve the vitality, livability amd diversity of downtown frederick, a national main street community.
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
Our mission is to promote recovery, wellness and peer support in an environment of advocacy, understanding and education to past or present recipients of mental health services and substance use disorder.
Our mission is to provide information, understanding, education, and support for persons experiencing mental illness and their families. We are an all volunteer organization that provides its services and information materials free of…
Our mission is to improve wellness and resiliency to equitably impact the lifelong health of all frederick county residents
The mission of the fredericksburg area museum and cultural center (famcc) is to collect, interpret and present the history and culture of the fredericksburg area. it is a learning center that seeks to educate students and the visiting…
To plan and implement special events and activities to offer the community a shared cultural experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Get Kids Outside. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 60 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 MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds Frederick Health Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Frederick Health Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds C BURR ARTZ TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DE FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES GARAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DELAPLAINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSED BRIDGES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK COUNTY 4-H THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UP & OUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE JOBS OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD LIVING FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds FEBRUARY STAR SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY 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: The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · United Way of Frederick County Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Inc · The George L Shields Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · America's Charities
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 G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main 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.
- Friends for Neighborhood Progress — 55% of income from government
- The African American Resources-Cultural and Heritage Society Inc — 49% of income from government
- Heartly House Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Frederick Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Delaplaine Arts Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Frederick Health Hospital Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College 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.