· Private foundation
Michael G Callas Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF | $50,000 |
| MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $48,995 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| BUTTONWOOD | $25,000 |
| SAN MAR | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| NFTE | $10,000 |
| HMP TRAINING | $10,000 |
| BAJA COMMUNITY FUND | $5,000 |
| SOBE CATS SPAY & NEUTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER HAGERSTOWN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MAR INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER AWARENESS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HMP Training ↗
- Who funds LEITERSBURG RURITAN CLUB INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael G Callas Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael G Callas Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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