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Pauline K Anderson Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$305k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$600kHealth$360kHuman Services$344kPhilanthropy$341kYouth Development$262kReligion$245kAnimals$85kArts & Culture$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JAMES SCHOOL$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,500
COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC$40,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$37,500
EASTER SEALS$35,000
CHILDREN IN NEED INC$15,000
SENIOR LIVING ALTERNATIVE INC(HOLLY PLACE)$15,000
VALOR MINISTRIES$15,000
BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$15,000
BOY SCOUTS - SHENANDOAH AREA COUNCIL$12,000
REACH OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$10,000
BROOKE'S HOUSE$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$5,000
WCPS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
GIRLS INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $25k → 12%FAHRNEY-KEEDY SEINOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $10k → 12%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $25k → 12%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $25k → 12%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $25k → 12%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $25k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $15k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $15k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $15k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $15k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $15k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $15k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $10k → 12%CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 15 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$1.9M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+23%

Still filing today

53%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SJ
    SAINT JAMES SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +25%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +9%
  • CI
    CHILDREN IN NEED INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -58%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND THEATRE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • FM
    FAHRNEY-KEEDY MEMORIAL HOME INC AKA FAHRNEY-KEEDY HOME AND VILLAGE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hospice of Washington County Inc

To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…

2
Washington County Historical Society Inc

The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.

Arts & Culture
3
Washington County Leadership Development Program Inc

Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.

Education
4
The Washington Housing Conservancy Inc

The washington housing conservancy is preserving affordable workforce housing and serving as stewards for long-term affordability in the washington area.

Housing & Shelter
5
Boys & Girls Club of Washington County Inc

Provide behavioral guidance and promote health, social, educational and vocational development of boys and girls six to eighteen years of age.

Youth Development
6
Washington Christian Outreach Inc

The washington christian outreach provides assistance and services to those within and outside washington county.

7
Hospice Care Corporation D/B/a West Virginia Caring

To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.

8
Washington County Free Library

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…

Education
9
Wayne County Community Services Organization

Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv

Community Improvement
10
Washington Co Community Residential Svc

To empower people with intellectual disabilities to live a shared vision of a valued life in connection with family, friends, and community life.

Human Services
11
Wheeler Creek Estates Comm Dev Corp

To serve the residents with the greatest need in the washington metropolitan area throughsocial,economic and housing opportunities.

Community Improvement
12
Women's Care Center of Maryland Incorporated

To provide counseling, support and education helping women have healthy babies, become nurturing parents and build strong families.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arc of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint James School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 221 MASON-DIXON COUNCIL — $210,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 221 MASON-DI…SENIOR LIVING ALTERNATIVE INC(HOLLY PLACE) — $123,594 · OtherSENIOR LIVING ALTERNATIVE INC(HOLL…EASTER SEALS — $85,000 · OtherEASTER SEALSUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - HAGERSTOWN — $70,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - HAGERSTOW…BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $67,500 · OtherBARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSIndividual grant recipient — $40,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC (REACH) — $40,000 · OtherRELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CAR…WCPA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Other+6 more — $62,000 · Other+6 moreSAINT JAMES SCHOOL — $500,000 · EducationSAINT JAMES SCHOOL+1 more — $5,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC — $340,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FO…COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC — $315,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FREE …BROOKES HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthCHILDREN IN NEED INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN IN…ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesARC OF WASH…HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF …FAHRNEY-KEEDY MEMORIAL HOME INC AKA FAHRNEY-KEEDY HOME AND VILLAGE — $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN OF VALOR MINISTRIES INC — $235,000 · ReligionWOMEN OF VA…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$723,594Education$505,000Philanthropy$340,500Health$335,000Human Services$245,000Religion$235,000Youth Development$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL — $500,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC — $340,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC — $315,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetWOMEN OF VALOR MINISTRIES INC — $235,000 over 8y, 37% of budgetCHILDREN IN NEED INC — $110,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC (REACH) — $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKES HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAHRNEY-KEEDY MEMORIAL HOME INC AKA FAHRNEY-KEEDY HOME AND VILLAGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WCPS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBREAST CANCER AWARENESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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 SAINT JAMES SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC
  • Who funds WOMEN OF VALOR MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN IN NEED INC
  • Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds RELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC (REACH)
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
  • Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC
  • Who funds FAHRNEY-KEEDY MEMORIAL HOME INC AKA FAHRNEY-KEEDY HOME AND VILLAGE
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WCPS INC
  • Who funds ONTRACK WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER AWARENESS 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.

The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland IncMD30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Irving M Einbinder Charitable Foundation Incorporated · Holzapfel Family Charitable Foundation C/O James Holzapfel · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · Kershner Sisters Foundation · United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust

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 Pauline K Anderson 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Pauline K Anderson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pauline K Anderson Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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