· Private foundation
Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k63 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $23,295 |
| ART LEAGUE OF OCEAN CITY | $7,500 |
| COASTAL HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| ST MARTIN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WORCESTER PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| DIAKONIA | $3,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| TAYLORVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $1,000 |
| HENRY HOTEL FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| STAUNTON MILITARY ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| MARLINS FOR MASON | $1,000 |
| TIDAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VES LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% 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.
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.
80 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 24 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SUSALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +108%
- WPWORCESTER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +15%
- ALArt League of Ocean City Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PFPRMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $7k
- HUHUREE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -52%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -24%
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.
Eastern shore land conservancy is committed to preserving and sustaining the vibrant communities of the eastern shore and the lands and waters that connect them.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Sharing personal stories of defending coastal delaware by us military forces and civilians; and showing how their actions shaped and influenced community life in delaware.
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The humane society is working to make a difference in the lives of animals and the people who love and care for them, and is dedicated to relieving the pain and suffering of animals through education and direct intervention.
To encourage and promote an interest in the study of the history of the eastern shore and the commonwealth of virginia; to carry on research and work of a historical character; to identify and preserve historic buildings, landmarks, and…
To collect, preserve, research and interpret the history of st marys county, maryland holding these collections in trust for the use and education of the public.
The organization works to conserve wild or underdeveloped open space, scenic areas, and historic landmarks in the casco bay region.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor and the most unlike its peers is Berlin Heritage Foundation Inc. 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 33 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 145 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 SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Art League of Ocean City Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ↗
- Who funds DIAKONIA INC ↗
- Who funds BERLIN FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OCEAN CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HUREE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSATEAGUE COASTAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CITY MUSEUM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR A BETTER EASTERN SHORE ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc · Synepuxent Post No 166 the American Legion Inc · E Bowen & Frances H Quillin Foundat · Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation · Richard a Henson Foundation Inc · Salisbury Wicomico Economic Development Inc · The Philip & Barbara Long Family Foundation Inc · Wilde Charitable Foundation · L Franklin Purnell 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 Joan W Jenkins Foundation 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.
- Diakonia Inc — 51% of income from government
- Life Crisis Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Art League of Ocean City Inc — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 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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