How much did THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF grant in FY2025?

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF reported 77 grants totaling $3,723,793 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF based?

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF is based in MD.

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF

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THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF

To promote philanthropy through the creation of endowment funds that provide grants to other 501(c)(3) publicly supported organization who provide assistance to needy individuals in washington county, md as well as grants in other fields of interest: arts & culture, historic preservation, youth and recreation, health and human services,…

$3.7M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$515k

Largest

01What you fund

0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$4.0MHuman Services$2.7MArts & Culture$2.1MHealth$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.0MRecreation & Sports$704kYouth Development$640kHousing & Shelter$334kAnimals$274kOther$3.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

technologytrinitychurch christaviationnaturaldonorsgoodwill

2020

relieffoodfaithlutheran churchcaregiversnutritionsmall

2021

antietamcoachingchangeabuseempoweraviationfree

2022

studentmental illnessexpansionantietambusinessescoachingabuse

2023

scholarshipresearchex-offenderscaregiversnutritiondonorsfrederick

2024

vmiemployment adultsadults intellectualintellectual disabilitieshousesembody mercymercy justice

2025

volunteer firepreventfire protectioneducate citizensambulancedickinsonproperty

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $103k
$10k–50k47 grants · $958k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
$250k+2 grants · $765k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$75M

Total assets

Largest grants

FAHRNEY KEEDY MEMORIAL HOME$515,250
HORIZON GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$250,000
HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA$192,292
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON CO$147,596
SAINT JAMES SCHOOL$125,725
MERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION$110,350
RELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE$107,906
COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC$72,776
WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGI$70,518
HOLLY PLACE$66,171
UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$59,875
THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC$58,300
THE HAGERSTOWN MULTI-USE SPORTS AND$55,000
ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL$54,150
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 92 repeat orgs$976k to everyone else

92 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$601k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+36%

Still filing today

82%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

SJ
SAINT JAMES SCHOOL
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +30%
HC
HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
MH
MERITUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $908k · revenue +812%

Funded once

GL
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $50k
ME
MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +48%
TS
THE SALVATION ARMY CHAMBERSBURG
one grant, 2024 · $24k

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

04Your field

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.

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Howard County Chamber of Commerce

To represent the business community of howard county, maryland

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University of Maryland Alumni

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Historical Society Harford Cou

Preserving the history and heritage of Harford County, Maryland

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Maryland Historical Society Inc

The maryland historical society serves the people of maryland, and those interested in maryland history, through stewardship of comprehensive library and museum collections that are central to the state's history.

Arts & Culture

The George Washington University

Education and research

Education

Columbia Housing Center Inc

To champion and sustain thriving, racially-integrated communities around columbia, maryland

Housing & Shelter

University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.

Health

United Way of Washington County

Our mission is to unite people, resources and organizations to improve lives in washington county. the united way of washington county envisions a community where everyone achieves their human potential through education, financial…

Philanthropy

Maryland Humanities Council Inc

Maryland Humanities creates and supports bold experiences that explore and elevate our shared stories to connect people, enhance lives, and enrich communities.

Arts & Culture

Washington University Medical Center

To provide and assist its member organizations in providing hospital facilities, physical properties, and programs appropriate for the care and treatment of patients, for the continued on Schedule O

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Juniata College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/159

the rest of the field

11%

1,029/9,605

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.

05the grantee network

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

122/128

Grantees still filing

101/128

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$4,005,542Other$4,608,671Human Services$2,662,422Arts & Culture$2,099,133Health$1,881,311Philanthropy$1,021,890Recreation & Sports$703,663

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.

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.

Nora Roberts FoundationMD59.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nora Roberts Foundation · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · Alice V & David W Fletcher · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey · United Way of Washington County · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation · Holzapfel Family Charitable · Agnita M Stine Schreiber Foundation

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 organisation THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLAIRS VALLEY FIRST CHURCH OF GOD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463540988 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BLAIRS VALLEY FIRST CHURCH OF GOD, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Community Foundation Of?

Find your warmest path to The Community Foundation Of through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation Of?

More from the funding graph

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation Of?

More from the funding graph