· Private foundation
Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of KLEINS SHOPRITE OF MARYLAND CHARITABLE FUND INC’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $45,167 |
| LADEW GARDENS | $7,500 |
| HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CHAR HOPE FOUNDATION | $2,590 |
| HARFORD LAND TRUST INC | $2,575 |
| ARC NORTHERN CHESAPEAKE REGION | $2,500 |
| BEL AIR DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE | $2,350 |
| THE ALBERT P CLOSE FOUNDATION | $1,599 |
| HARFORD UNITED CHARITIES INC | $1,500 |
| THE GREATER BEL AIR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WINTER WONDERLAND INC | $1,500 |
| THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC | $1,500 |
| LAILA'S GIFT | $1,030 |
| HARFORD COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UCUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +139%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +26%
- HFHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- HCHARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +16%
- NBNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
The harford county bar foundation is dedicated to advancing access to justice by providing legal assistance, education, and advocacy. by bridging gaps in legal services, we empower individuals and families to navigate the legal system. our…
To promote, protect and represent the business, economic, social and educational interests of those engaged in farming and agricultural business undertakings in harford county, maryland.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
To augment volunteer fire fighting and emergency medical services provided to harford county, maryland.
HC DrugFree provides prevention, treatment, recovery, and health, wellness resources and education to help Howard County residents develop knowledge and skills to understand and address behavioral health disorders substance abuse and…
The mission of the harford center is to provide individualized services to harford county adults with intellectual disabilities by utilizing programs that facilitate personal growth and development for each individual and treating them…
The mission of hartwood foundation, inc. (the foundation) is to provide services for persons with developmental disabilities by furnishing housing and training in independent living.
To be the community leader in solving human service challenges by uniting the minds, hearts, and resources of business, government, health, labor, education, and individuals.
To promote successful volunteer fire and emergency medical service operations within harford county, maryland.
To develop arts and public spaces in the community; to spur economic development and the quality of community life in hyattsville; to encourage widespread community leadership for community revitalization; to promote educational activities…
Partnering with Anne Arundel County families and individuals that are working towards self-sufficiency and addiction recovery by providing needed food and resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harford County Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lailas Gift. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 111 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 Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BEL AIR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC NORTHERN CHESAPEAKE REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAR HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEL AIR DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD UNITED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERT P CLOSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEL AIR INDEPENDENCE DAY COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD DAY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Historical Society Harford Cou ↗
- Who funds WINTER WONDERLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BOURBON AND BOWTIES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOMING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY ITALIAN-AMERICAN BUSINESS ↗
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: The Dresher Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Community Foundation of Harford County Inc · The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc · The Greater Bel Air Community Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Society Italian-American Business · Oluv C Joynor Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Zazulak Burian Foundation Inc · The Wiessner Foundation for Children 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 Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund 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.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Harford Land Trust Inc — 15% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Susquehannock Wildlife Society Inc — 10% of income from government
- Harford Community Action Agency Inc — 9% of income from government
- Nutley Family Service Bureau — 6% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 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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