· Public charity
The Caroline Foundation Inc
To award grants to nonprofit organizations that benefit the local community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARTIN'S MINISTRIES | $120,000 |
| HIS HOPE MINISTRIES | $115,000 |
| COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE | $100,000 |
| AARON'S PLACE | $70,000 |
| YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $60,000 |
| CAROLINE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $60,000 |
| CHOPTANK COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEM | $60,000 |
| FOR ALL SEASONS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY CIVIC LEAGUE OF FEDERALSBURG | $45,150 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GRAPE DBA CHESAPEAKE CULINARY CENTER | $35,000 |
| CHANNEL MARKER | $30,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER CAROLINE COUNTYCRITICAL REPAIRS CAROLINE COUNTY | $24,110 |
| DC CENTER | $23,240 |
| CASA CAROLINE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CARE | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Caroline Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 95%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 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
Backed again, and grew
- CRCOMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $700k · revenue +4%
- SMSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $530k · revenue +61%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $443k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Maryland Shore Regional Health Incone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -63%
- MFMASSB FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue +35%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $16k
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.
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.
The mission of middle river volunteer fire and rescue co., inc. is to prepare for and respond to emergencies, protecting people, property, and the environment of middle river and the surrounding communities by fostering a progressive and…
Provide volunteer fire and emergency rescue services to the general public of the city of virginia beach, virginia.
Provide quality compassionate holistic care to patients at home.
Provide fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical services to local community in towson, md and surrounding areas.
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
The mission of essex volunteer fire company, inc. is to provide emergency services to citizens of baltimore county, maryland in their time of need. we accomplish this through education, prevention and protection of life and property with…
Care during final stage of life
Fire and rescue services
Provide fire and rescue services in the new market, md area
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
Fire and emergency services
The fire company provides fire, rescue, and medical service for a community of approx. 3,450 homes in baltimore county, md.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds HIS HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER SHORE AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL MARKER INC ↗
- Who funds CHOPTANK COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINE CLERGY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE GRAPE INC ↗
- Who funds AARONS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CAROLINE INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SHORE COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Shore Regional Health Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIDGELY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds DENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FEDERALSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds PRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
- Who funds GOLDSBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ADKINS ARBORETUM LTD ↗
- Who funds MID-SHORE RESTORING HOPE IN WOMEN ↗
- Who funds MARYDEL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF MARYDEL DELAWARE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Caroline Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Caroline Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc: 40% of income from government
- Casa of Caroline Inc: 26% of income from government
- Mid-Shore Council On Family Violence: 26% of income from government
- Upper Shore Aging Inc: 24% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc: 22% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
- Choptank Community Health System Inc: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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