· Private foundation
Second Street & Hope Inc
To alleviate the pain of personal poverty through emergency provision, and eliminate the problem of persistent poverty through personal mentoring and education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC | $40,000 |
| LIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| SECOND CHANCES GARAGE | $10,000 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $9,000 |
| CROSSROADS FREEDOM CENTER | $8,000 |
| SOAR | $5,000 |
| CITY YOUTH MATRIX CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC | $5,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS | $5,000 |
| LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC | $2,500 |
| EACH 1 TEACH 1 INC | $2,200 |
| GLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| LISTEN LOVE PRAY FOUNDATION INC | $302 |
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 (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +16%
- IBI Believe in Me Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +13%
- CYCITY YOUTH MATRIX4× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UOUP & OUT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CLCONJOSTUDIOS LLCone grant, 2018 · $15k
- RORAINBOW OF LOVE RECOVERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $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.
To provide transition housing and reintegration programs for ex-offenders
To provide behavioral health and social services to individuals and their families, with a special focus on ex-offenders, people in recovery, and those diagnosed with mental health conditions. Our services include, but are not limited to:…
Learning for Life Youth Program provides youth and family services at the community-based level to clients in underserved communities who are at risk and vulnerable needing emotional and social support Youth Devel
New Life II offers safe housing, peer support, mental health services, and harm reduction resources rooted in compassiona and cultural responsiveness.
Re-entry services for men who have been incarcerated.
Faith based counseling ministry
Discipleship and Re-entry services to former incarcerated people and treatment graduates.
Programs & support for inner city youth
Provide training, guidance and assistance to encourage and motivate college students and graduates through ministry jobs and voluntary services. Provide financial and leadership resources for Kenya ministries.
Nationwide prison ministry
Teen services
Counseling for low income individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Frederick County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Listen Love Pray Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds I Believe in Me Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY YOUTH MATRIX ↗
- Who funds UP & OUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES GARAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Each 1 Teach 1 INC ↗
- Who funds GLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Listen Love Pray Foundation ↗
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 Frederick County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Truist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Second Street & Hope 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.
- Life and Discovery Inc — 100% of income from government
- Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc — 27% 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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