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Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$956k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$42,847
Largest grant, FY2024
$86,007
Organizations funded a year
17 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$481k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$956k10%
FY202319$1.1M32%
FY202217$868k6%
FY202117$993k0%
FY202018$934kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEmployment$971kHousing & Shelter$193kEducation$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Action Association of Pennsylvania: $390,758 over 5y, 18% of budgetWest Virginia Community Action Partnersh: $375,750 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetVirginia Community Action Partnership Inc: $375,750 over 5y, 12% of budgetCommunity Assistance Network Inc: $242,847 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc: $242,847 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Communities Against Poverty Inc: $242,847 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHuman Services Programs of Carroll County Inc: $242,847 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetShore Up Inc P O Box 430: $242,847 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGarrett County Maryland Community Action Committee: $242,847 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFriends for Neighborhood Progress: $192,847 over 4y, 41% of budgetDelmarva Community Services Inc: $192,847 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMaryland Rural Development Corporation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAllegany County Human Resources Development Commission Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood Service Center Inc: $92,847 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAnne Arundel County Casa Inc: $42,847 over 1y, 7.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Cash Campaign of Maryland IncMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc · The Maryland Food Bank Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Share Our Strength · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies

How much does Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies give?
Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies reported 20 grants totaling $956,406 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Community Improvement (32%), Employment (20%).
Who are Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Community Action Association of Pennsylvania ($391k), West Virginia Community Action Partnersh ($376k), Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc ($376k).
Does Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc, The Maryland Food Bank Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc.
Where is Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies based?
Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies is based in MD.

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 27 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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