· Public charity
Friends of the Patapsco Valley Inc
To preserve, protect, interpret and restore the environment, history and culture of the patapsco river valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATONSVILLE RAILS TO TRAILS INC | $4,700 |
| CATONSVILLE TREE CANOPY PROJECT | $3,750 |
| HOWARD COUNTY RECREATION & PARKS | $2,350 |
| HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC | $2,000 |
| HOWARD ECOWORKS INC | $1,685 |
| VISIT HOWARD COUNTY | $1,665 |
| BENJAMIN BANNEKER FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| THE GREATER PATAPSCO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC | $875 |
| HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| OELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CRCATONSVILLE RECREATION & PARKS COUNCIL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +41%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PATAPSCO VALLEY STATE PARK LTD2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +497%
- THTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HCHOWARD COUNTY GOVERNMENTone grant, 2018 · $4k
- TGTHE GREATER CATONSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +79%
- UPUPPER PATUXENT ARCHAEOLOGY GROUPone grant, 2019 · $1k
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
To collect, preserve and share the diverse history of all the peoples of howard county
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To develop arts and public spaces in the community; to spur economic development and the quality of community life in hyattsville; to encourage widespread community leadership for community revitalization; to promote educational activities…
Promote economic developement
To unite those engaged in the recognized branches of the real estate profession for the purposes of exerting a beneficial influence upon the profession and related interests.
The Historical Society of Baltimore County Collects, Preserves and Interprets the Rich History of Baltimore County for the Education and Enjoyment of Present and Future Generations.
The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
The Chamber engages in promotional activities for the commercial welfare of Georgetown County serving hundreds of members through business promotion, networking, leadership development, business training, tourism promotion, destination…
Oregon Ridge Nature Center Council was created to advise, recommend, promote, conduct and develop, in cooperation with the Department of Recreation and Parks and its Board, nature interpretation and conservation programs and projects…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Howard County Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catonsville Rails to Trail Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 CATONSVILLE RECREATION & PARKS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Ellicott City Historic District Partnership LLC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PATAPSCO VALLEY STATE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATONSVILLE RAILS TO TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CATONSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD ECOWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
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 Howard County Inc · Chesapeake Bay Trust · The Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Friends of the Patapsco Valley 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.
- The Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce Inc — 50% of income from government
- Howard County Tourism Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Howard County Arts Council — 9% of income from government
- Howard Ecoworks Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Howard County Conservancy 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.