· Public charity
Help Association Inc
All proceeds from the sale of donated clothing and household items are donated to other non-profit community organizations in the form of monetary grants
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $102,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $183,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $81,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTMAS IN APRIL-CALVERT CO | $20,000 |
| CALVERT MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S LADIES OF CHARITY | $11,000 |
| CALVERT CHURCHES COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| CALVERT FAMILY ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CALVERT CO SENIORS | $10,000 |
| PROJECT ECHO | $10,000 |
| BAYSIDE HISTORY MUSEUM INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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 +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PEPROJECT ECHO INC5× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +25%
- CCChristmas-In-April Calvert County Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +37%
- MFMASSB FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +5%
- CCCALVERT CHURCHES FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CCCALVERT CHURCH FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
Providing Rescue and Recovery Dive Services for Calvert County
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
It is the mission of the Community Foundation of Southern Maryland to enhance the quality of life for the community of Southern Maryland by aligning philanthropic interests with community needs through stewardship, collaboration, and…
Work in partnership with faith communities, not-for-profit organizations, businesses, and concerned citizens to provide groceries, self-sufficency assessments, training and other services to local families and individuals in need.
The CalvertHealth Foundation is focused on the development, optimization and operation of multiple charitable donation programs to maximize support for CalvertHealth Medical Center and its subsidiaries whose vision is to provide…
religious and charitable
Support for Calvert County Public Libraries
Gaithersburg meals on wheels, inc (gmw) was incorporated in 1981 by a group of volunteers for the purpose of developing nutritious meals, at a low cost to homebound disabled people of any age who are unable to safely shop for and prepare…
Calvert health system, inc. was organized and at all times operates exclusively for the benefit of calverthealth medical center. calvert health system,inc. manages its subsidiaries in order to promote and support public health programs and…
Provide financial assistance and support to individuals in need due to emergency situations.
Provide nationally certified search dog teams with support management personnel to requesting agencies to assist in finding lost or missing persons utilizing the teams volunteer member dogs. Additionally provide Community Education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southern Maryland and the most unlike its peers is Special Olympics Maryland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 PROJECT ECHO INC ↗
- Who funds Christmas-In-April Calvert County Inc ↗
- Who funds CALVERT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CALVERT COUNTY SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LADIES OF CHARITY CALVERT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT CHURCHES COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAYSIDE HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ON OUR OWN OF CALVERT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CALVERT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Calvert County Public Library Foundation ↗
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: United Way of Southern Maryland · Give Back Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · 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 Help Association 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.
- Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Special Olympics Maryland Inc — 17% 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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