· Private foundation
Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of RUTH AND ROBERT ST JOHN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOR ALL SEASONS | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| CRITCHLOW ADKINS CHILDRENS CENTER | $12,500 |
| EES CARE PACKS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CHANNEL MARKER | $7,500 |
| TALBOT COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $7,000 |
| POSITIVE STRIDES | $6,000 |
| PICKERING CREEK AUDUBON FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CARE | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DIXON HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- FAFOR ALL SEASONS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +279%
- CACHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +33%
- CMCHANNEL MARKER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TTTEAM TRACE INCone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -6%
- TCTALBOT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -17% · 70% of their budget
- TCTALBOT COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICEone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Casa of the mid-shore advocates for the best interest of children who are under the protection of the circuit courts of talbot, dorchester, queen annes and kent counties due to abuse, neglect or abandonment.
At talisman, we believe in the transformative, healing power of horses and our natural environment. we serve, empower all, and lead by example with compassion, dignity, and inclusivity.
Talbot interfaith shelter is dedicated to ending homelessness on maryland's mid-shore by providing shelter, stability, support and a path to success for families and individuals in need.
Create opportunities for independence and personal success for people with different abilities in inclusive communities.
Provide residential and human services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
To enhance the quality of life, autonomy and dignity of marylanders with disabilities by offering cost effective trust services to protect, manage and use trust assets for beneficiaries while preserving eligibility for public and private…
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
Dedicated to strengthening agencies to better support people with developmental disabilities and their families in their own communities through advocacy that promotes the highest standards of program excellence, fostering a climate that…
Potomac case management services, inc. enhances the quality of life and maintains independence for individuals of the tri-state community through the use of advocacy and partnerships.
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dixon House 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 81 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 FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL MARKER INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE STRIDES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIXON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TRED AVON PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM TRACE INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK 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 Llandaff Family Trust · Dock Street Foundation · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation Inc · Qlarant Foundation Inc · Van Strum Foundation 8833023
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 Ruth and Robert St John 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.
- Talbot County Arts Council Inc — 69% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% 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.