· Private foundation
Homer & Martha Gudelsky Family Fdn
Its FY2025 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: 88% of HOMER & MARTHA GUDELSKY FAMILY FDN’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $695k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTHA B GUDELSKY CHILD DEV CENTER | $1,200,000 |
| B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $780,000 |
| UMBF INC | $170,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING | $100,000 |
| CAMP HAVAYA | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY | $75,000 |
| DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COLLEGE ITE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| COASTAL HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| THE ART LEAGUE OF OCEAN CITY | $30,000 |
| RAINBOW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S TABLE | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $370k · revenue +48%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +26%
- TATHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC5× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $345k · revenue -51%
- MCMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $320k · revenue -22%
- HHADASSAHone grant, 2024 · $200k
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 upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
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.
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…
Mcfc builds an equitable, resilient and sustainable local food system through collaboration, transformation, and cultivation.mcfc envisions a vibrant and equitable food system that is healthy for our community, economy, and environment.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.
To support medstar montgomery medical center and its community through volunteer work.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc and the most unlike its peers is Unstoppable Joy Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 69 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 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDALHEALTH PENINSULA REGIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Art League of Ocean City Inc ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Table Inc ↗
- Who funds HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRONIA ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIAKONIA INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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: Nora Roberts Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc · Adventist Healthcare 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 Homer & Martha Gudelsky Family Fdn 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.
- Diakonia Inc — 51% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Capitol Technology University — 9% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Art League of Ocean City Inc — 6% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Howard County Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Women's Housing Coalition Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional 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.
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