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San Mar Children's Home Inc

The organization provides family, community, and mental health services for at-risk children and supervises the administration and provision of such services by other organizations.

$302k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$143k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $263k
$16,718
Median grant
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States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON CO COMMUNITY ACTION CO$143,128
ASIAN AMERICAN CENTER OF FREDERICK$67,987
POTOMAC COMMUNITY SERVICES$51,453
FREDERICK CO MENTAL HEALTH ASSN$16,718
CHILDREN IN NEED INC$10,310
HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$6,939
UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON CO$5,072
02Its field
02the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 7 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $143,128 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCPOTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $51,453 · Human ServicesPOTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INCCHILDREN IN NEED INC: $10,310 · Human ServicesLIFE AND DISCOVERY INC: $67,987 · EducationLIFE AND DISCOVERY INCMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $16,718 · HealthHOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $6,939 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $5,072 · Philanthropy
Human Services$204,891Education$67,987Health$16,718Other$6,939Philanthropy$5,072

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $51,453 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $16,718 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN IN NEED INC: $10,310 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $5,072 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Firstenergy FoundationOH13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization San Mar Children's Home Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Mar Children's Home Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Life and Discovery Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Washington County Community Action Council Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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