· Private foundation
Healthcare Initiative Foundation
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 $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $841k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE (USG) | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE (USG) | $100,000 |
| WUMCO HELP INC | $50,000 |
| EVERYMIND (FORMERLY MHA OF MOCO) | $50,000 |
| PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITY FARMSHARE | $40,000 |
| WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION | $35,000 |
| MID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC | $35,000 |
| OUR MINDS MATTER | $35,000 |
| JSSA (JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY) | $30,000 |
| IDENTITY INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FARMSHARE | $25,000 |
| THE CAREERCATCHERS INC | $25,000 |
| MOBILE MEDICAL CARE | $23,750 |
| AMERICAN DIVERSITY GROUP | $23,750 |
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, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Healthcare Initiative 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, 90% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 64% — 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 +50% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2023 · $581k · revenue +32%
- CFCare for Your Health Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $449k · revenue +21%
- IIIDENTITY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- PCPRIMARY CARE COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $306k
- IIIDENTITY INC (FISCAL SPONSOR)one grant, 2024 · $125k
- MCMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $96k
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 mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with people of all ages and abilities and those who support them in the community to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, and a meaningful community life.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
The mission of family and medical counseling service is to employ community based, culturally competent approaches to provide comprehensive services that promote the emotional and physical health of families and individuals regardless of…
To encourage, promote and facilitate broad and inclusive civic participation.
To provide direct services and work with public and private organizations throughout maryland to ensure the most vulnerable residents receive essential guidance for nutrition, health care, education, housing, employment and immigration…
Assist the Montgomery County WIB, in expanding the Public Workforce Development System in the county, through serving and connecting job seekers and businesses.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
To plan and coordinate systems of services which help older americans, those with disabilities regardless of age and caregivers, maintain their independence through a variety of programs. these programs include, but are not limited to,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nonprofit Montgomery Inc and the most unlike its peers is If Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 127 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 FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Care for Your Health Inc ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY CARE COALITION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DIVERSITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WUMCO HELP INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE AMERICANS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds The Tree House Child Advocacy Center of Montgomery County MD Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR MINDS MATTER ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMSHARE ↗
- Who funds CARINGMATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER AND ADULT SERVICES INC DBA ASPIRE COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds MID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County Maryland Inc · Mead Family Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Bender 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 Healthcare Initiative 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
- Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc — 45% of income from government
- Afrithrive Inc — 41% of income from government
- Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — 28% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Story Tapestries Inc — 16% of income from government
- Community Clinic Inc — 16% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Montgomery — 3% of income from government
- National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
- The Upcounty Hub Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% 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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