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Maryland Agricultural Resource Council Inc

For the benefit of the citizens of md to enhance their knowledge and appreciation for agricultural businesses.

$159k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC$106,341
HEREFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,000
HEREFORD JR FARM FAIR$5,500
FARMYARD FRIENDS LEARNING CENTER INC$5,000
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE$5,000
MARYLAND 4-H FOUNDATION$5,000
HEREFORD HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
FUTURE HARVEST$5,000
IMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,500
CITY RANCH INC$2,500
EASTERN REGION ASSOC OF FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOLS$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES NURSING INC (VILLA MARIE SCHOOL)$1,000
02The need
02

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 (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MARYLAND 4-H FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%EASTERN REGION ASSOC OF FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOLS: $1k → 11%CITY RANCH INC: $3k → 19%IMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 11%AMERICAN LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%HEREFORD HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 11%HEREFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10k → 11%FARMYARD FRIENDS LEARNING CENTER INC: $5k → 11%HEREFORD JR FARM FAIR: $6k → 11%LAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $106k → 11%FUTURE HARVEST: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NURSING INC (VILLA MARIE SCHOOL): $1k → 11%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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $106,341 · EnvironmentLAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentHEREFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherHEREFORD MIDDLE SCHOOLHEREFORD JR FARM FAIR: $5,500 · OtherHEREFORD JR FARM FAIRMARYLAND 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherMARYLAND 4-H CLUB FOUNDATIO…MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherMARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCA…FARMYARD FRIENDS LEARNING CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherFARMYARD FRIENDS LEARNING C…HEREFORD HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherHEREFORD HIGH SCHOOLIMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherIMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH+1 more: $1,000 · OtherFUTURE HARVEST INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · EducationCITY RANCH INC: $2,500 · Animals
Environment$107,341Other$39,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Education$5,000Animals$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $106,341 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURE HARVEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCITY RANCH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 64%
  • Land Preservation Trust Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Future Harvest Inc: 41% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 13 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.

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