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Interfaith Works

INTERFAITH WORKS was established in 1972, and incorporated in 1978.

$8.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$177kPublic Safety & Disaster$145kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,839,449 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,819,449 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFAITH HOUSING COALITION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%UPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK (UMAN): $14k → 8%UPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK (UMAN): $10k → 8%UPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK (UMAN): $10k → 8%UPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK (UMAN): $9k → 8%Upper Montgomery Assistance Network (UMAN): $9k → 8%UPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK (UMAN): $9k → 8%COMMUNITY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE (CMR): $13k → 8%Communtiy Ministries of Rockville (CMR): $12k → 8%COMMUNITY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE (CMR): $11k → 8%COMMUNITY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE (CMR): $9k → 8%COMMUNITY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE (CMR): $9k → 8%COMMUNTIY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE (CMR): $8k → 8%COMMUNTIY MINISTRIES OF ROCKVILLE (CMR): $7k → 8%Midcounty United Ministries (MUM): $11k → 8%MIDCOUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES (MUM): $10k → 8%MIDCOUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES (MUM): $8k → 8%MIDCOUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES (MUM): $7k → 8%MIDCOUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES (MUM): $6k → 8%MIDCOUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES (MUM): $6k → 8%WUMCO HELP INC: $8k → 8%WUMCO HELP INC: $6k → 8%Western Upper Mongomery County HELP (WUMCO-Help): $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$318k · 8 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$318k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+71%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CR
    COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +5%
  • UM
    UPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $62k · revenue +13%
  • MU
    MID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +271%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAITH CONNECTIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -82%
  • TS
    The Shepherds Table Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +71%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Germantown Help Inc

Germantown HELP provides delivered emergency food and food pickup events; prescription assistance; and Thanksgiving and December holiday help to residents of Germantown, MD. We also partner with area churches, civic groups and neighbors on…

Food & Nutrition
2
Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program Inc

Our mission is to assist montgomery county residents in maintaining their households and restoring their self-sufficiency. this can be achieved by serving the immediate, emergency, and temporary needs of low-income, unemployed, elderly or…

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3
Elbert County United Methodist Food Ministry Inc
Food & Nutrition
4
Mt Airy Net Inc

Provide support and services primarily food utilities and rent assistance for those in need in the four county region of Mount Airy Maryland.

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5
Southwest Emergency Services Inc

Southwest Emergency Services (SWES) is a Christian-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to help individuals and families in need by providing perishable and non-perishable food as well as financial assistance to avoid eviction and…

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6
Bethany Village Inc
Human Services
7
Madison Emergency Services Association Inc

Temporary emergency relief to needy families.

Health
8
Doorstep Ministries Inc

To assist familes and individuals throughout the washington dc metropolitan area with (usually) one-time financial assistance for emergency expenses such as medical, shelter, clothing, food, evacuation, funeral and other expenses that are…

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9
Harford Community Action Agency Inc

Hcaa is harford county's one-stop shop for services and programs to benefit low-income individuals and families in need. hcaa provides emergency financial assistance to stabilize those in crisis and programs that help them become more…

Human Services
10
Haven Ministries Inc

Providing hope to those in need in queen anne's county by supplying shelter, clothing, food, and support. programs include a homeless shelter, daily thread thrift shop, emergency food pantry, resource center, warehouse with job training,…

Housing & Shelter
11
Emergency Christian Ministries Inc

A religious and community-based ministry for those who are homeless and in need.

Human Services
12
Temporary Help in Emergency House

Emergency housing

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-County United Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gaithersburg Help Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $68,279 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTYUPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $61,544 · Human ServicesUPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INCEASTERN MONTGOMERY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $55,442 · Human ServicesEASTERN MONTGOMERY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INCMID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC: $46,946 · Human ServicesMID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INCWUMCO HELP INC: $17,817 · Human ServicesWUMCO HELP INCGAITHERSBURG HELP INC: $34,826 · OtherGAITHERSBURG HELP INCINTERFAITH HOUSING COALITION INC: $20,000 · OtherINTERFAITH HOUSING COALITION I…MINISTRIES UNITED SILVER SPRING TAKOMA PARK INC: $16,966 · OtherMINISTRIES UNITED SILVER SPRIN…MINISTRIES UNITED SILVER SPRINGTAKOMA PARK (MUSST): $15,815 · OtherMINISTRIES UNITED SILVER SPRIN…FAITH CONNECTIONS INC: $3,335 · Other+1 more: $1,008 · Other
Human Services$250,028Other$91,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $68,279 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER MONTGOMERY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $61,544 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetEASTERN MONTGOMERY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $55,442 over 6y, 30% of budgetMID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC: $46,946 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetGAITHERSBURG HELP INC: $34,826 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetINTERFAITH HOUSING COALITION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWUMCO HELP INC: $17,817 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMINISTRIES UNITED SILVER SPRING TAKOMA PARK INC: $16,966 over 2y, 4.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Healthcare Initiative…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Healthcare Initiative FoundationMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Interfaith Works funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Interfaith Works. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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