· Private foundation
Pettit Family Charitable 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 $10k38 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shady Grove Adventist Foundation | $50,000 |
| St Francis of Assisi | $20,000 |
| Gospel Haiti Inc | $15,000 |
| St Francis of Assisi | $10,000 |
| Montgomery Hospice Foundation | $10,000 |
| Rebuilding Together Montgomery County | $10,000 |
| Maryland Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless | $10,000 |
| Montgomery College Foundation | $7,500 |
| Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless | $6,000 |
| Homebuilders Care Foundation | $5,000 |
| Germantown Cultural ArtsBlack Rock | $5,000 |
| Germantown Cultural Center Inc | $5,000 |
| Stepping Stones Shelter Inc | $5,000 |
| Sandy Spring Museum | $5,000 |
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, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +32% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 9 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +118%
- TMTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +71%
- THTHE HOME BUILDERS CARE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SGShady Grove Adventist Hospitalone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SOSo Others May Eatone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MBMARYLAND BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +12%
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.
Maryland inclusive housing corporation's (mih) mission is to help people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (idd) successfully access and maintain inclusive, affordable, and accessible housing of their choice by…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, the medstar visiting nurse association provides personalized home health care for homebound patients in maryland, northern virginia, and the district of columbia. its mission is to make a…
To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion. to bring comfort by providing compassionate, professional care to community residents who are facing serious illness and loss. to provide dignity for the…
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…
Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
The maryland association of realtors exists to support all segments of its membership and their specialties. continued on schedule o
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery Housing Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lisbon Volunteer Fire Company. 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 36 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 133 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 REBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME BUILDERS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART COMIENZOS EAST INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds IN HONOR OF HER INC ↗
- Who funds OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDY SPRING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERNIE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMED COMMUNITIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stones Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS BOARD OF MONTGOMERY GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC & RECREATIONAL RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CARROLL COUNTY 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Spm Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · The Phase Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial 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 Pettit Family Charitable 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Sandy Spring Museum Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Germantown Cultural Arts Centerinc — 10% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Montgomery — 3% of income from government
- Olney Theatre Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation 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.