· Community foundation
Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc
The foundation connects private resources with public needs to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of caroline, dorchester, kent, queen anne's and talbot counties, maryland.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 158 grants below total $8,917,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,748,403 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,830,747 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $241k
- $10k–50k91 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $3,769,289 |
| THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC | $215,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC | $201,000 |
| THE VESTRY OF WYE PARISH | $193,560 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $171,119 |
| SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $170,787 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE | $150,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $148,937 |
| WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC | $141,000 |
| TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC | $138,802 |
| FOR ALL SEASONS INC | $124,500 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC | $86,920 |
| UPPER SHORE AGING INC | $83,582 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE | $83,154 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
190 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 40 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- MHMemorial Hospital Foundation Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +847%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +3%
- CCCHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- BBBRYAN BROTHERS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $837k · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CAROLINE COUNTY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $364k
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.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
Chester river hospital center (crhc) is an acute care hospital that serves the residents of kent and queen anne's counties and portions of caroline and cecil counties
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
To provide health care services necessary to meet the individual needs of residents and their families, as well as the community by assisting residents to achieve and maintain their highest practical level of well being while at the same…
Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.
Long term recovery response in the counties of maryland's eastern shore
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
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.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is ALL4LOVE. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
230 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 230 of the 383 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRYAN BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERWYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COS ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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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 Mid Shore Community Foundation 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.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Kent Attainable Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
- Chesapeake Center Inc — 83% of income from government
- Talbot County Arts Council Inc — 69% of income from government
- Sudlersville Fire Company Inc — 67% of income from government
- Mid Shore Community Mediation Center Inc — 63% of income from government
- Kent Agricultural Center Inc — 48% of income from government
- Dorchester Center for the Arts Inc — 47% of income from government
- Community Mediation Upper Shore Inc — 41% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Kent Cultural Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Casa of Caroline Inc — 26% of income from government
- Mid-Shore Council On Family Violence — 26% of income from government
- Talisman Therapeutic Riding Inc — 25% of income from government
- Upper Shore Aging Inc — 24% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Eastern Shore Area Health Education Cent — 21% of income from government
- Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Choptank Community Health System Inc — 13% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Benedictine School for Exceptional Children Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Talbot County Free Library Association Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chesterwye Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.