· Private foundation
Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MPT FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| MIDSHORE COMMUNITY RADIO | $5,530 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM | $5,500 |
| ACADEMY ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| DELMARVA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $3,500 |
| EASTON AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY | $1,700 |
| MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $1,110 |
| BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CRITCHLOW-ADKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER | $1,000 |
| 50K SOULS | $1,000 |
| FOR ALL SEASONS | $1,000 |
| MIDSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +176%
- MFMPT FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +76%
- BFBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA5× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MPMARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- YOYMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKEone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The annapolis maritime museum educates youth and adults about the annapolis areas rich maritime heritage and the ecology of the chesapeake bay through programs, exhibits, and community events. continued on schedule o
Chesapeake bay trust is a public, nonprofit grant-making organization created to promote public awareness of and participation in the restoration and protection of the chesapeake bay and its tributaries. (see schedule o for continuation)…
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
Chesapeake shakespeare company creates community through energetic, joyful, and accessible classic theatre, bringing our art to baltimore, the state of maryland, and beyond through innovative and comprehensible productions of shakespeare…
Bay-journal media is a non-profit whose mission is to expand independent, unbiased reporting that informs the public about environmental issues affecting the chesapeake bay and which inspires effective action to restore, protect, and…
The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.
To promote historical maritime education, foster economic development and tourism, and represent the people of maryland in every port she visits. pride of baltimore ii set sail as the goodwill ambassador for the state of maryland in 1988.…
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
Eastern shore land conservancy is committed to preserving and sustaining the vibrant communities of the eastern shore and the lands and waters that connect them.
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. 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 51 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 — 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.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 58 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Shore Community Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · Dock Street Foundation · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson 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 Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable 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.
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% 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.