· Private foundation
Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZION REFORMED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $3,000 |
| HAGERSTOWN AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| MAUGANSVILLE AREA FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| LONGMEADOW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,600 |
| FIRST HOSE COMPANY OF BOONSBORO | $2,500 |
| THE MARYLAND THEATRE | $2,500 |
| GIRLS INC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN'S SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,500 |
| FORT RITCHIE COMMUNITY CENTER CORPO | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| MT AETNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION | $2,500 |
| WILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE AND EMS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
62 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 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; $8k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +56%
- CFCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +9%
- BHBROOKES HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +323%
Funded once
- CRCOMMUNITY RESCUE SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +64%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
- HPHOLLY PLACE SENIOR LIVINGone 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.
The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
The mission of the washington county free library system is to continually improve our service to the public by:* providing the public with free access to library materials in a variety of formats* promoting community enrichment, economic…
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
Long-term care facility for the elderly
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.
To provide socialization opportunities, meaningful activities, a caring community that fosters mutual support, programs, activitities and an environment that foster recovery.
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Living Alternatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Hose Company of Boonsboro 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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 89 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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds DEAFNET ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRING TO SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC/AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds LEITERSBURG RURITAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S SPRING INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF VALOR MINISTRIES 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 Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Pauline K Anderson Foundation Inc · W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust · Delaplaine 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 Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc 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.
- Potomac Playmakers Inc — 31% of income from government
- San Mar Children's Home Inc — 29% of income from government
- Washington County Commission On Aging Inc/Area Agency On Aging — 19% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Potomac Case Management Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Williamsport Volunteer Fire & Ems Inc — 2% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts — 2% of income from government
- Star Community Inc — 2% 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.
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