· Public charity
The Brick Companies Foundation Inc
To support programs and initiatives that benefit the communities in which our businesses operate.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $71,046 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $86,109 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,063 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP | $55,546 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY OF MD | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- AAANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +31%
- SRSCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC3× · 2018–2021 · $31k · revenue +46%
- TBThe Brendan Corporation2× · 2019–2020 · $16k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- LHLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue +11%
- ARARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INCone grant, 2024 · $56k · revenue -1%
- CRCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +92%
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.
The annapolis maritime museum educates youth and adults about the annapolis areas rich maritime heritage and the ecology of the chesapeake bay through programs, exhibits, and community events. continued on schedule o
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
See schedule oprovide a vehicle to develop programs, implement strategies and complete projects which further housing and community development goals and advance the common good and general welfare of communities and residents,…
The chesapeake audubon society works in the maryland region to promote the stewardship of natural ecosystems through conservation, restoration, education, and advocacy.
Connect the people who live, work, and play on the severn river to restore and protect it for all of our communities
Anacostia Community Boathouse Association (ACBA) is a volunteer-run organization that provides opportunities for non-motorized recreational water activities such as rowing and paddling through its member organizations, which include three…
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) mission, simply stated, is to Save the Bay. See Schedule O for Continuation (page 48)
Aws's mission is to protect and restore the anacostia river by bringing partners and communities together to achieve a clean and safe anacostia river for the benefit of all living in its watershed and for future generations.
To serve business needs and to increase anne arundel county economic base through job growth and investment.
To protect and restore the Anacostia River for all those who live work and play in the watershed and to advocate for a clean healthy river for all its communities.
Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arundel Rivers Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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.
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 LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC ↗
- Who funds ARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERNIE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds The Brendan Corporation ↗
- Who funds BACK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Start the Adventure in Reading (STAIR) - Annapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAYSAVERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
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: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Koch Family Foundation Inc · Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation · Jerome S and Grace H Murray Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer 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 The Brick Companies 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.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Arundel Rivers Federation Inc — 19% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc — 0% 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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