· Private foundation
L Franklin Purnell Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOR WIC FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| DIAKONIA INC | $11,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD | $2,000 |
| COASTAL HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| HENRY HOTEL 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 (FY17–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- DIDIAKONIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +148%
- CHCOASTAL HOSPICE8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SPST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $2k
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -17%
- SUSTEVENSON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
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 ocean city development corporation is dedicated to the revitalization of the downtown area of ocean city, maryland. programs are designed by the organization to formulate and implement long range development strategies for commercial,…
Provide quality compassionate holistic care to patients at home.
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
To provide hospice and bereavement care to patients and their families in pamlico and portions of beaufort and craven counties, nc
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
Provide medical and other suport services to patients and their families.
To make quality hospice care available to persons with life threatening illnesses, their families, and those affected by death and dying in our community; to advocate effectively for patient comfort, dignity, and choice; and to be…
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
The mission of webster memorial hospital is to provide excellent, high quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
To provide care and support for the terminally ill.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Gold Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berlin Little League Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 19 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.
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 · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Wilde Charitable Foundation · Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Bpoe 2645 · Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation · Synepuxent Post No 166 the American Legion Inc · Amazonsmile 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 L Franklin Purnell Foundation 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.
- Worcester County Arts Council Inc — 89% of income from government
- Diakonia Inc — 51% 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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