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Rotary International - Rotary Club of Frederick
Community Service
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Rotary International - Rotary Club of Frederick’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Frederick County Maryland Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Rotary International - Rotary Club of Frederick named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $58k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
The 6 grants below total $57,908 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $85,616 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,708 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Maryland Foundation of Dentistry For the Handicapped | $20,000 |
| Heartly House Inc | $10,000 |
| Student Homeless Initiative Partnership of Frederick County Inc | $8,000 |
| Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership | $7,500 |
| Blessings In a Backpack | $6,363 |
| Career & Technology Center Invention Fund | $6,045 |
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 (FY18–20, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Rotary International - Rotary Club of Frederick’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% 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
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC3× · 2018–2020 · $28k · revenue +29%- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +43%
- COCHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- LCLITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +87%
- TRTHE RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +290%
- EFEAST FREDERICK RISING INCone grant, 2018 · $12k
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.
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
Our mission is to promote recovery, wellness and peer support in an environment of advocacy, understanding and education to past or present recipients of mental health services and substance use disorder.
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
Fredericksburg christian health center exists to bring the hope and healing of christ to the poor and marginalized by treating body, mind, and spirit.
To provide peer counseling, information and referal services, advocacy, independent living skills training and transition services for persons with disabilities in frederick and carroll county, maryland.
Our mission is to provide information, understanding, education, and support for persons experiencing mental illness and their families. We are an all volunteer organization that provides its services and information materials free of…
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community
The mission of the Good Samaritan Center is to provide a safe, Christ- Centered environment that gives our patients quality, coordinated and affordable healthcare.
To provide counseling services for individual and family problems for residents of the fredericksburg area. also trainings for residents and staff,educational presentations, psychological testing, mental health screenings, and services as…
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Supporting Older Adults Through Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tserings Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 MARYLAND FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTING OLDER ADULTS THROUGH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Frederick Health Medical Group LLC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT HOMELESSNESS INITIATIVE PARTNERSHIP OF FREDERICK COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SETON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UP & OUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TSERINGS FUND ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: United Way of Frederick County Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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 - Rotary Club of Frederick 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.
- Heartly House Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Ranch Inc — 0% 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.