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Garrett Walker Joshua 1-9 Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLENELG HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLORSHIP | $2,059 |
| MT AIRY NET | $708 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| THE FOXIE G FOUNDATION | $350 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $237 |
| SECOND CHANCE GARAGE | $209 |
| 222 MUSCLE THE SOPHIA | $200 |
| FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION | $200 |
| CROSSED BRIDGES | $200 |
| SMALL MIRACLES CAT & DOG RESCUE | $200 |
| DAYS END HORSE RESCUE | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| HOPE WORKS OF HOWARD COUNTY | $154 |
| SAVING GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE | $150 |
| KNINE RESCUE | $150 |
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, $463) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Garrett Walker Joshua 1-9 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +83% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 20 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; $6k 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
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +83%- HFHIVES FOR HEROES2× · 2022–2023 · $353 · revenue ×313
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $250 · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FFFREDERICK FLIGHT CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FTFlight Training Center FBO Colin Haone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FQFE QUE TRANSFORMA INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.
Feral Cat Rescue provides support for spay and neutering feral cats in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Expenses include spay, neutering, vaccination against rabies and distemper, micro chipping, parasite control both internal and external and…
Furget Me Not Rescue is a nonprofit animal rescue organization dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming abandoned, neglected, and at-risk animals. The organization provides veterinary care, foster placement, and adoption…
Heavens Home Rescue saves dogs and cats from high kill shelters. We focus our efforts on abuse cases feral dogs hospice cases and pregnant and nursing dogs and cats and the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
Rescue dogs being neglected, unwanted or in danger of being euthanized and find them loving caring homes.
We are an animal rescue that believes in giving shelter animals a voice and happy home. We take in unwanted or abused dogs and cats from local high kill shelters we prepare them for adoption and find the perfect match for the adoptive…
Dog and cat rescue
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Moonracer No Kill Animal Rescue, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, care and rehabilitation of homeless pets in order to find them good and safe homes. We believe that all animals deserve love, dignity, proper care…
Misfit angels rescue mission is to rescue, rehab and ultimately rehome dogs. our mostly large and xl dogs come from high kill shelters, city/county shelters, stray and owner surrenders without our own state. misfit completely vets, from…
Rescuecats is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, state-licensed, no-kill group dedicated to rescuing owner released and homeless cats & dogs and placing them into new homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frederick Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metro Animal Shelter. 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 19 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) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 42% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 39 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 SMALL MIRACLES CAT AND DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MT AIRY NET INC ↗
- Who funds HIVES FOR HEROES ↗
- Who funds THE FOXIE G FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES GARAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSED BRIDGES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YOUTH MATRIX ↗
- Who funds FRECKLES FOUNDATION & ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds I Believe in Me Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARINGMATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds METRO ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Colby's Crew Rescue ↗
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: Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Garrett Walker Joshua 1-9 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.
- Hopeworks of Howard County Inc — 29% 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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