Maryland · Public charity
The Caroline Foundation Inc
To award grants to nonprofit organizations that benefit the local community.
- $860k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,150
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Caroline Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $860k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $791k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $695k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $765k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $566k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $747k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $600k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $578k | 88% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass Regional Hospice Inc | $700,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Saint Martins Ministries Inc | $530,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Chesapeake Inc | $443,000 | 9 | 0% |
| His Hope Ministries Inc | $435,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Upper Shore Aging Inc | $315,800 | 6 | 3% |
| For All Seasons Inc | $303,837 | 6 | 1% |
| Channel Marker Inc | $215,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Choptank Community Health System Inc | $204,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Caroline Hospice Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 98% |
| Partners in Care Maryland Inc | $168,000 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 36 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Caroline Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Dock Street Foundation · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Burke & Herbert Bank Foundation · United Way of Caroline County Maryland Inc · At & Mary H Blades Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · United Fund of Talbot County Inc · United Way of Kent County Inc · Van Strum Foundation 8833023
How this is measured
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About The Caroline Foundation Inc
- How much does The Caroline Foundation Inc give?
- The Caroline Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $860,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Caroline Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Human Services (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are The Caroline Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Compass Regional Hospice Inc ($700k), Saint Martins Ministries Inc ($530k), Young Mens Christian Association of the Chesapeake Inc ($443k).
- Does The Caroline Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Caroline Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc, Dock Street Foundation.
- Where is The Caroline Foundation Inc based?
- The Caroline Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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