· Private foundation
Rotary International
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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Columbia Community Care | $4,500 |
| Howard County Finance Dept | $3,000 |
| Community Action Council of Howard | $2,000 |
| Kenya Connect EIN XXX-XX-XXXX | $2,000 |
| Howard Eco Works | $500 |
| Rotary Club of of Columbia Patuxent | $300 |
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 (FY24–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CCColumbia Community Care2× · 2024–2025 · $24k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +4%
- HEHOWARD ECOWORKS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SUSHELTERBOX USA INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- HCHOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +87%
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.
We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
The Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Columbia Gorge Habitat for Humanity adheres…
Acs' mission is to champion, strengthen, and connect howard county nonprofits.
Promote economic developement
To champion and sustain thriving, racially-integrated communities in and around columbia, maryland.
Hcaa is harford county's one-stop shop for services and programs to benefit low-income individuals and families in need. hcaa provides emergency financial assistance to stabilize those in crisis and programs that help them become more…
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Mission: johns hopkins howard county medical center, a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service excellence,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Howard County Arts Council and the most unlike its peers is Columbia Community Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 Columbia Community Care ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOWARD ECOWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Columbia Center For Theatrical Arts 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 Howard County Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Rotary International 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.
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- Howard County Arts Council — 9% of income from government
- Howard Ecoworks Inc — 7% of income from government
- Columbia Community Care — 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.
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