How much did RICHARD A HENSON FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of RICHARD A HENSON FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

—

2021

—

2022

lower shore

2023

delmarva

2024

womendelmarva

2025

girlswomenwicomicodelmarvalower

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $37k
$10k–50k18 grants · $330k
$50k–250k7 grants · $586k
$250k+3 grants · $1.6M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$52M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRIENDS FOUNDATION OF WICOMICO PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000,000
HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM$395,077
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE$252,580
HEALTHPORT$125,000
UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTER SHORE$115,200
YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE$90,000
DELMARVA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$83,639
ELEVEN 21 INC EPOCH DREAM CENTER$72,000
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE$30,000
SALVATION ARMY$26,000
CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION$25,000
HAITIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF DELMARVA$25,000
PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF THE EASTERN SHORE$25,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 45 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+124%

Still filing today

58%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +243%
HA
HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM
2× · 2023–2025 · $828k · revenue +2468%
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE
9× · 2017–2025 · $664k · revenue +42%

Funded once

IR
IM R A HENSON CRUT UW FBO RICHARD HENSON JR
one grant, 2023 · $130k
E
EASTERSEALS
one grant, 2024 · $25k
JH
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2024 · $21k

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.

Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Svcs Inc

The organization is dedicated to residential revitalization and the promotion of home ownership in salisbury, maryland.

Community Improvement

Safe Harbor of Chester County Inc

Safe harbor of chester county is a non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to provide shelter, food, and supportive programming to individuals experiencing homelessness in chester county.

Housing & Shelter

Habitat for Humanity of Carroll County

To provide homeownership opportunities and home repairs to lower income families in carroll county, maryland

Housing & Shelter

Chesapeake Bay Housing Inc

Charitable and educational purposes including, but not limited to, the provision and operation of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing and related supportive services for low income individuals.

Housing & Shelter

Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc

To explore the unique world between the chesapeake bay and the atlantic ocean and discover how the lives of the people on delmarva are shaped by the water and land, and how the people, in turn, reshape this environment.

Arts & Culture

Salisbury Beach Partnership Inc

Create & maintain a revitalized Salisbury Beach

Environment

Historical Society Harford Cou

Preserving the history and heritage of Harford County, Maryland

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Hope Center of Maryland Inc

Assist low-income families

Food & Nutrition

Chesapeake Bay Outward

To inspire character development and self-discovery in people of all ages and walks of life through challenge and adventure.

Youth Development

Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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Chesapeake Charities Inc

The mission of chesapeake charities, inc. is to provide innovative leadership and quality services that encourage charitable giving, build community resources, and enable donors continued on schedule o

Philanthropy

Seaside Christian Academy Inc

Christian school

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salisbury Urban Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Symphony 21. 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 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/31

the rest of the field

11%

56/510

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.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/30

Grantees still filing

25/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$8,942,266Education$5,263,500International$1,511,001Arts & Culture$984,252Philanthropy$808,708Health$341,600Human Services$290,110

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.

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.

Community Foundation of the Eastern ShorMD45.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation · Salisbury Wicomico Economic · Donnie Williams Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore · The Philip & Barbara Long Family · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · The Dunahoo Family Foundation Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The Keith Campbell 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 organisation RICHARD A HENSON 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HAITIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF DELMARVA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842229797 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HAITIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF DELMARVA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 39% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Richard a Henson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Richard a Henson Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RICHARD A HENSON FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Richard a Henson Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

RICHARD A HENSON FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Richard a Henson Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph