· Private foundation
Richard a Henson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $586k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HAITIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF DELMARVA | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $788k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SUSALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +99%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +64%
- TPTIDALHEALTH PENINSULA REGIONAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.8M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IRIM R A HENSON CRUT UW FBO RICHARD HENSON JRone grant, 2023 · $130k
- EEASTERSEALSone grant, 2024 · $25k
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue +1%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
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
Long term recovery response in the counties of maryland's eastern shore
To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…
The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.
The center's mission is to provide affordable, quality, primary and preventative health care services, oral health care services and mental health care services to the residents of somerset, wicomico and worcester counties in maryland.
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
The mission of salisbury neighborhood housing services, inc. is to cultivate sustainable neighborhoods with partnerships and lending that inspire self-reliance, growth and optimism.
The entity operates a sheltered workshop for handicapped clientele and an evaluation center for local organizations.
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
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 baltimore international seafarers' center is an inter-faith ministry rooted in the tradition of christian hospitality. we believe in the unconditional love of god for all people, and we demonstrate this love through our commitment to…
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDALHEALTH PENINSULA REGIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ↗
- Who funds ELEVEN 21 INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE HAITIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF DELMARVA INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS DELMARVA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE AUTISM COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SKIPJACK HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SPACE FLIGHT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DOVE POINTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Salisbury Wicomico Economic Development Inc · Donnie Williams Foundation Inc · The Philip & Barbara Long Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc · Jack P and Anne R Smith Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard a Henson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard a Henson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Life Crisis Center Inc: 24% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation: 20% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc: 9% of income from government
- Healthport Inc: 5% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc: 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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