· Private foundation
Kiwanis Foundation of Bethesda Maryland Inc
Helping disadvantaged youth either by summer camping programs, donations to various charitable organizations helping youth and awarding scholarships to youth who demonstrate philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| BETHESDA CARES | $3,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $1,500 |
| IMAGINATION STAGE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CAPITAL DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION | $365 |
| BCC HIGH SCHOOL | $300 |
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, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
National Council of YMCAs of the USA3× · 2017–2019 · $289k · revenue +51%- YOYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $166k · revenue +20%
- BCBETHESDA CARES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NAT'L Cone grant, 2019 · $7k
- DBDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $500
- BCBETHESDA CHEVY CHASE HS BANDone grant, 2023 · $300
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.
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
Imagination stage of washington, dc, inc. empowers all young people to discover their voice and identity through performing arts education and professional theatre.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
To implant firmly in the youth of the community by providing supervised athletic events, the ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect so that they may become well adjusted, stronger and happier and will grow to…
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
Kipp dc is the largest public charter school network in washington, d.c., serving more than 7,300 students from prek-12th grade. we are dedicated to supporting students who have historically lacked access to high-quality educational…
The mission of the YMCA is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build health spirit, mind, and body for all.
Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
The Greater Philadelphia YMCA works to connect people to healthier lives through three areas of focus: healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility.
The mission of boys and girls clubs of greater washington is to help boys and girls of all backgrounds, especially those who need us most, build confidence, develop character and acquire the skills needed to become productive,…
The young men's christian association of metropolitan washington (ymca) responds to critical youth, teen and family issues with therapeutic, counseling and developmental programs, including truancy prevention, teen pregnancy counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dwelling Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Institute for Children & Adolescents-Rockville Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN - DC ↗
- Who funds THE DWELLING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL 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: Nora Roberts Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Kiwanis Foundation of Bethesda Maryland 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% 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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