· Private foundation
Michael S Hollins Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEGS4VETS | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN OF ADDICTION | $3,978 |
| THE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE | $3,978 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,978 |
| MARYLAND HORSE COUNCIL | $3,978 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $2,610 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,191 |
| THE HEADSTRONG PROJECT | $2,191 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $2,191 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $2,191 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $2,191 |
| CHIMES FOUNDATION | $2,191 |
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 (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- MWMt Washington Pediatric Foundation Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +18%
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC3× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +18%
- C1CLUB 164 INC3× · 2021–2023 · $13k · revenue +96%
Funded once
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +1%- SMSEGS4VETS MOBILIZING AMERICA'S HEROESone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SFSCHOLARSHIPS FOR SCHOLARS INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -58%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Culper Connect Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 158 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 CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HYATTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CLUB 164 INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HORSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHIMES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Venable Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman 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 Michael S Hollins Foundation 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.
- The Pride Center of Maryland Inc — 49% of income from government
- Seeds 4 Success Inc — 48% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Hopeworks of Howard County Inc — 29% of income from government
- Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution Inc — 26% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Howard County General Hospital Inc — 0% 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.