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Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc

The organization promotes the understanding and appreciation of the importance of agriculture in everyone's daily lives.

$86k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$23k
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 2023.

Food & Nutrition$214k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $44,471, the rows itemized in this filing. The $85,572 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,101 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$15,727
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROWERS SUPPLY$22,744
SABILLASVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL$15,727
LEAD MARYLAND$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GROWERS SUPPLY: $23k → 11%SABILLASVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL: $16k → 6%LEAD MD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF GREAT KIDS FARM: $10k → 11%LEAD MD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%MPT FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 11%LEAD MD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%MPT FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 11%LEAD MARYLAND: $6k → 7%MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%LEAD MD FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%LEAD MD FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%LEAD MD FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%MASCD: $5k → 7%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$161k · 3 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$161k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+138%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MF
    MPT FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +64%
  • LM
    LEAD MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue -7%
  • MF
    MARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $44k · revenue -35%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN INgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +138%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -25%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 7 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEAD MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $51,250 · EducationLEAD MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCSABILLASVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL INC: $15,727 · EducationSABILLASVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL INCFRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN: $10,298 · EducationFRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS…MARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INC: $44,350 · OtherMARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INCGROWERS SUPPLY: $22,744 · OtherGROWERS SUPPLYMPT FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureMPT FOUNDATION INCTHE MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$77,275Other$67,094Arts & Culture$65,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLEAD MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $51,250 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetMARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INC: $44,350 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSABILLASVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL INC: $15,727 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN: $10,298 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Maryland Grain Produc…Amazonsmile Foundation
Maryland Grain ProducersMD13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $74k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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