· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $728k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC OF PENNSYLVA | $86,007 |
| WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PART | $71,000 |
| VA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $71,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD | $42,847 |
| DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $42,847 |
| UNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY | $42,847 |
| GARRETT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION | $42,847 |
| FREDERICK COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $42,847 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC | $42,847 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION | $42,847 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CAA | $42,847 |
| COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC | $42,847 |
| HARFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGE | $42,847 |
| HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS OF CARROLL | $42,847 |
| BALTIMORE CITY COMMUNITY ACTION PAR | $42,847 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA5× · 2020–2024 · $391k · revenue +567%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSH5× · 2020–2024 · $376k · revenue +68%
- VCVIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $376k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- AAANN ARUNDEL CNTY COMM ACTION AGENCYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OFone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Hcaa is harford county's one-stop shop for services and programs to benefit low-income individuals and families in need. hcaa provides emergency financial assistance to stabilize those in crisis and programs that help them become more…
To provide economic, educational and housing assistance to individuals who are in need through the resources offered by government and private grants.
"community action of greene county (cagc) empowers disadvantaged individuals and families to grow and thrive through advocacy and person- centered services. cagc promotes collaboration to strengthen the community." cagc's services include…
To provide encouragement, guidance, and assistance to the people of our community in the mobilization of resources to combat poverty. the council's goal is to increase the capacities of individuals and groups to deal with their own…
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Cornerstones housing corporation (chc) operates as the affordable housing arm of cornerstones, inc. together, cornerstones and its subsidiary chc have served fairfax county low- to moderate-income residents for over 50 years. working in…
The mission of the community action partnership of mercer county is to help people help themselves through leadership in community partnering that provides opportunities to live with decency and dignity.
To plan and coordinate systems of services which help older americans, those with disabilities regardless of age and caregivers, maintain their independence through a variety of programs. these programs include, but are not limited to,…
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
Our mission is to reduce the causes and adverse consequences of poverty and to empower low-income individuals, families and communities to achieve self-sufficiency through advocacy, resource utilization and service delivery.
Provide service and assistance to low income residents of armstrong county.
Provide resources for low income individuals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Communities Against Poverty Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends for Neighborhood Progress. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSH ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE UP INC P O BOX 430 ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC ↗
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: 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
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 Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies 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.
- Maryland Rural Development Corporation — 62% of income from government
- Shore Up Inc P O Box 430 — 56% of income from government
- Friends for Neighborhood Progress — 55% of income from government
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee — 32% of income from government
- Allegany County Human Resources Development Commission Inc — 28% of income from government
- United Communities Against Poverty Inc — 17% of income from government
- Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Assistance Network Inc — 7% 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.