· Public charity
Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy
Program Service Accomplishments:Form 990, Part III, Line 4a:Each year, MCAEL awards grants to support adult english language learning programs in Montgomery County, with funds provided by the Montgomery County Government.
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 $10k7 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $874k
- $250k+1 grant · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $314,834 |
| Classroom 2 Community | $233,527 |
| CASA Inc | $220,233 |
| Community Reach of Montgomery Count | $160,514 |
| Seneca Creek Community Church | $99,008 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdioce | $88,696 |
| Ana A Brito Foundation Inc | $71,648 |
| Ethiopian Community Center Inc | $46,000 |
| Vietnamese American Services | $31,980 |
| Solutions in Hometown Connections | $25,000 |
| Chinese Culture and Community Servi | $20,000 |
| The Briggs Center for Faith and Act | $20,000 |
| IMPACT Silver Spring | $20,000 |
| Covenant Life Church Inc | $20,000 |
| Identity Inc | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k 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
- C2Classroom 2 Community Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +45%
CASA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +194%- EIEVERYMIND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +237%
Funded once
- SPSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2024 · $331k · revenue +8%
- SWService Workers Training and Education PARTNERSHIP FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue ×65 · 31% of their budget
- ICISLAMIC CENTER OF MARYLAND INCone grant, 2021 · $8k
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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Program Service Accomplishments:Form 990, Part III, Line 4a:Each year, MCAEL awards grants to support adult english language learning programs in Montgomery County, with funds provided by the Montgomery County Government. The grants both…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Reach of Montgomery County and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
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 36 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 Classroom 2 Community Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMIND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKVILLE SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds ANA A BRITO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGGS CENTER FOR FAITH AND ACTION ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND VIETNAMESE MUTUAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE AMERICANS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SILVER SPRING ↗
- Who funds The George B Thomas Sr Learning Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Solutions in Hometown Connections ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN PARENTS ASSOCIATION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Kings & Priests Comm Develop Corp ↗
- Who funds Service Workers Training and Education PARTNERSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds WUMCO HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Gaithersburg Beloved Community Init ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN GLOBAL CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNITY PARTNERS 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County Maryland Inc · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Bender Foundation Inc · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Nora Roberts 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 Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy 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.
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System 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.
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