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· 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$106kPhilanthropy$85kEducation$47kHealth$41kHuman Services$40kCrime & Legal$19kArts & Culture$15kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,493
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSROADS FREEDOM CENTER$5,000
FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,493
LIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY$1,002
CITY YOUTH MATRIX CORPORATION$244
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $41k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY: $25k → 6%LIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY: $1k → 6%SECOND CHANCES GARAGE: $10k → 6%SECOND CHANCES GARAGE: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$308k · 11 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$308k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+12%

Still filing today

64%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +16%
  • IB
    I Believe in Me Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +13%
  • CY
    CITY YOUTH MATRIX
    5× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UO
    UP & OUT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • RO
    RAINBOW OF LOVE RECOVERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • CL
    CONJOSTUDIOS LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Living Faith Ministries Inc

To provide transition housing and reintegration programs for ex-offenders

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2
My Choice 2 Change Inc

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:…

Arts & Culture
3
Learning for Life Youth Development Program

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

Youth Development
4
Rick Ingram Ministries Inc

Re-entry services for men who have been incarcerated.

Human Services
5
New Life Ii Ministries Teaching You Another Way

New Life II offers safe housing, peer support, mental health services, and harm reduction resources rooted in compassiona and cultural responsiveness.

Religion
6
Independent Marylanders Achieving Growth Through Empowerment Inc

Committed to providing a wide array of services to assist individuals with disabilities so that those individuals may live independently, pursue meaningful goals, and have the same opportunities and choices as all persons. Mission is to…

Education
7
Many Languages One Voice

MLOVs mission is to foster leadership and provide tools for greater civic participation of immigrants in DC who do not speak English as their primary language in solutions that impact their lives.

Civil Rights
8
Living Again Ministries Inc

This faith based environment with on site mentorship services is formed to provide housing for individuals in need. the organization also provides assistance with employment, identification, and other important documentation needed for…

Housing & Shelter
9
Family Movement

The mission of family movement is to support families in transitioningfrom homeless shelters to stable, permanent housing, with a focus onhomeownership. we achieve this by providing financial stabilityeducation, mentorship, and guidance to…

Human Services
10
Living Loved Ministries Inc

Faith based counseling ministry

Religion
11
Front Porch Ministry

Programs & support for inner city youth

—
12
Friendly Loving Opportunities Inc

FLO provides food, clothes, furniture and supplies to the homeless and people in need. We inspire men, women and children to instill hope and transform their lives.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Frederick County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAINBOW OF LOVE RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherRAINBOW OF LOVE RECOVERY FO…CONJOSTUDIOS LLC: $15,000 · OtherCONJOSTUDIOS LLCFREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $14,893 · OtherFREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCH…CROSSROADS FREEDOM CENTER: $13,000 · OtherCROSSROADS FREEDOM CENTERLITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERI…CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS: $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PA…SOAR: $10,000 · OtherSOARIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $300 · OtherUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $85,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK …I Believe in Me Inc: $70,361 · Youth DevelopmentI Believe in Me IncCHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS PARTNERSHIP INC: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN OF INCARCERATE…CITY YOUTH MATRIX: $36,165 · EducationCITY YOUTH MATRI…LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC: $17,500 · EducationLIFE AND DISCOVE…Each 1 Teach 1 INC: $2,200 · EducationLIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY INC: $26,002 · Human ServicesLIVING WATE…SECOND CHANCES GARAGE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSECOND CHAN…UP & OUT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthINTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterListen Love Pray Foundation: $302 · Religion
Other$93,193Philanthropy$85,000Youth Development$79,361Education$55,865Human Services$41,002Health$25,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Religion$302

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $85,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetI Believe in Me Inc: $70,361 over 4y, 15% of budgetCITY YOUTH MATRIX: $36,165 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetLIVING WATER SHOWER MINISTRY INC: $26,002 over 2y, 17% of budgetUP & OUT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLIFE AND DISCOVERY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND CHANCES GARAGE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS PARTNERSHIP INC: $9,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetINTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEach 1 Teach 1 INC: $2,200 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetListen Love Pray Foundation: $302 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Community Foundat…Ausherman Family TrustAusherman Family Foun…Delaplaine Foundation…United Way of Frederi…The Helen J Serini Fo…William E Cross Found…The Kahlert Foundatio…America's CharitiesTruist Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland IncMD28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Second Street & Hope Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Second Street & Hope Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%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
  • Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report 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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Find your warmest path to Second Street & Hope Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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 22 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-PF 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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