· Private foundation
R Wayne Feezer Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k39 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARDS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $60,000 |
| WARDS CHAPEL R WAYNE FEEZER SCHOLARSHIP | $30,000 |
| BRIDGING LIFE (CARROLL HOSPICE) | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARROLL COUNTY MD | $10,000 |
| CARROLL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S STAFF OF CARROLL COUNTY | $5,000 |
| ARC OF CARROLL COUNTY | $4,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $3,000 |
| CIVITAN INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| SHRINER'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| WARDS CHAPEL PRESCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ESCAPE MINISTRIES INC | $2,500 |
| HARBOUR SCHOOL OWINGS MILLS | $2,000 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP #730-DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED SCOUTS | $2,000 |
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, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 19% 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.
52 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 14 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARROLL COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +74%
BRIDGINGLIFE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +25%- CHCARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH INTELL ECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +143%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Our communities expect and deserve superior medical treatment, compassionate care, and expert guidance in maintaining their health and well-being. at carroll hospital center, we offer an uncompromising commitment to the highest quality…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
A certified home health agency (chha) providing home-based therapy and related rehabilitation services to children and young adults with special needs.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
Acds is dedicated to providing lifetime resources of exceptional quality, innovation and inclusion for individuals with down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities and their families. we provide a continuum of year round…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Believe in Tomorrow National Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is E S C a P E Ministries Inc. 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 80 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGINGLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds E S C A P E MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
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 Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Lancelotta Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Allegis Group Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 R Wayne Feezer Memorial 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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.