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Maryland Law Enforcement Officers Inc

Promoting all phases of law enforcement

$10k
Granted FY2021
10
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Education$49kOther$0
02FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$364k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE$1,000
WOR WIC COMM COLLEGE$1,000
CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE$1,000
BALTIMORE COMM COLLEGE$1,000
CECIL COLLEGE$1,000
UNIV OF MD EASTER SHORE$1,000
TOWSON COMM COLLEGE$1,000
AA COMMUNTITY COLLEGE$1,000
CARROLL COMM COLLEGE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CARROLL COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 6%AA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%CECIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%TOWSON COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 11%HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 12%UNIV OF MD EASTERN SHORE: $1k → 13%BALTIMORE COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 19%CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%AA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%CECIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 12%UNIV OF MD EASTER SHORE: $1k → 13%UNIV OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 19%CARROLL COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 6%A A COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%CECIL COLLEGE: $1k → 10%CHESAPEAKE COLLE: $1k → 10%TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 12%UNIV OF MD EASTERN SHORE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 19%CARROLL COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 6%AA COMMUNTITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%CECIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 12%UNIV OF MD EASTERN SHORE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 19%CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%AA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%CECIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 12%UNIV OF MD EASTERN SHORE: $1k → 13%UNIV OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 19%COMM COLLEGE OF BALT CITY: $1k → 11%WOR WIC COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 19%CCB ESSEX FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%WOR WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%COMM COLEGE OF BALT CITY: $1k → 11%WOR WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%COMM COLLEGE OF BALT CTY: $1k → 11%WOR WIC COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$39k · 11 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +121% since the first grant, against +76% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$39k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+76%

Still filing today

9%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

  • HC
    HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5k
  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $4k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • CC
    COMM COLEGE OF BALT CITY
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • CC
    COMM COLLEGE OF BALT CTY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

2 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGE — $5,000 · OtherHAGERSTOWN COMM COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHESAPEAKE COLLEGE — $4,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $4,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKAA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $4,000 · OtherAA COMMUNITY COLLEGETOWSON UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · OtherTOWSON UNIVERSITYCARROLL COMM COLLEGE — $3,000 · OtherCARROLL COMM COLLEGEWOR WIC COMM COLLEGE — $3,000 · OtherWOR WIC COMM COLLEGECARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $2,000 · OtherWOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC — $2,000 · Other+10 more — $10,000 · Other+10 moreCECIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · EducationCECIL COLLE…TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · EducationTOWSON UNIV…
Other$45,000Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCECIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CECIL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Maryland Law Enforcement Officers Inc 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Maryland Law Enforcement Officers Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Maryland Law Enforcement Officers Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $10k 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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