· Private foundation
Michael G Callas Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FUND MDC FDN | $200,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $100,000 |
| HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $48,995 |
| BUTTONWOOD | $25,000 |
| SAN MAR | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HMP TRAINING | $10,000 |
| NFTE | $10,000 |
| BAJA COMMUNITY FUND | $5,000 |
| SOBE CATS SPAY & NEUTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $392k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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
- TITHE INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +45%
- BCBREAST CANCER AWARENESS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +43%
- WCWOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- DHDOEY'S HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $75k
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -27% · 27% of their budget
- AOARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue +17%
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.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
Childrens day care center
The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.
To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.
The mission of the washington county free library system is to continually improve our service to the public by:* providing the public with free access to library materials in a variety of formats* promoting community enrichment, economic…
The center's mission is to provide affordable, quality, primary and preventative health care services, oral health care services and mental health care services to the residents of somerset, wicomico and worcester counties in maryland.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hmp Training. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 68 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 THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MASON-DIXON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SMITHSBURG LITTLE SLUGGERS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER HAGERSTOWN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAN MAR INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER AWARENESS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOBE CATS SPAY & NEUTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEITERSBURG RURITAN CLUB 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: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Holzapfel Family Charitable Foundation C/O James Holzapfel · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Beachley Foundation Inc · Vincent Rauth Groh and Barbara Ingram Groh Perpetual Charitable Tr
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 Michael G Callas Charitable Trust 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.
- Meritus Health Foundation Inc — 94% of income from government
- Washington County Arts Council Inc — 56% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Washington County Commission On Aging Inc/Area Agency On Aging — 19% of income from government
- San Mar Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc — 5% 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.