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Sandy Spring Bank 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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$600kFood & Nutrition$50kHousing & Shelter$28kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
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States reached
$183k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC$2,500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MedStar Washington Hospital Center: $50k → 14%Inova Health Foundation: $100k → 6%Frederick Health Hospital: $50k → 6%Howard County Hospital Foundation: $50k → 6%Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation: $50k → 6%MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center: $50k → 8%Doctors Community Hospital: $50k → 11%Maryland Food Bank: $25k → 11%MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital: $50k → 19%Capital Area Food Bank: $25k → 14%Our Military Kids: $3k → 6%FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC: $3k → 6%MedStar Montgomery Medical Center: $50k → 8%MedStar Union Memorial Hospital: $50k → 19%Operation Renewed Hope Foundation: $25k → 6%Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc

See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.

Health
2
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
3
Montgomery General Hospital Inc

See schedule omedstar montgomery medical center is dedicated to enhancing our community's health by offering high quality, compassionate and personalized care.

Health
4
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
6
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland Inc

See schedule owe are guided by catholic teachings to provide compassionate, inclusive, and connected care to the community we are entrusted to serve.

Health
7
Hh Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
8
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc

Luminis health's mission is to enhance the health of the people and communities we serve. our vision is living healthier together. we believe that health and wellness are fundamental to everyone. we work side-by-side with our community and…

Health
9
Harbor Hospital Inc

See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, medstar harbor hospital's (medstar harbor) mission is to be committed to always providing a quality, caring experience for our patients, our communities, and those who serve them. medstar…

Health
10
Suburban Hospital Inc

Suburban hospital will deliver superior healthcare enhanced by technology, wellness education, research, and innovative partnerships with physicians, hospitals, the community, and the national institutes of health. mission: improving…

Health
11
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

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Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Union Memorial Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCMEDSTAR SOUTHERN MD HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthMEDSTAR SOUTHERN MD HOSPITAL CENTER INCWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION — $50,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATIONFrederick Health Hospital Inc — $50,000 · HealthFrederick Health Hospital IncTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 · HealthTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITALAdventist HealthCare Shady Grove — $50,000 · OtherAdventist HealthCare Shady GroveDoctors Community Hospital — $50,000 · OtherDoctors Community HospitalHoward County Hospital Foundation — $50,000 · OtherHoward County Hospital FoundationMedStar Montgomery Medical Center — $50,000 · OtherMedStar Montgomery Medical CenterMedStar Good Samaritan Hospital — $50,000 · OtherMedStar Good Samaritan HospitalTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCOPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Health$350,000Other$275,000Housing & Shelter$27,500Food & Nutrition$25,000Philanthropy$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEDSTAR SOUTHERN MD HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrederick Health Hospital Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Nora Roberts FoundationMD15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sandy Spring Bank 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Frederick Health Hospital Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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