· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc
The community foundation is dedicated to connecting people who care with causes that matter to enrich the quality of life in frederick county now and for future generations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 130 grants below total $5,504,536 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,447,146 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,942,610 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $274k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREDERICK HEALTH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000,769 |
| HOWARD CHAPEL RIDGEVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $311,110 |
| CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION | $247,893 |
| HEARTLY HOUSE INC | $209,638 |
| DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC | $191,214 |
| ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC | $114,638 |
| FRIENDS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC | $113,300 |
| BEYOND SHELTER | $107,265 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC | $107,033 |
| FREDERICK HEALTH HOSPICE | $94,876 |
| MISSION OF MERCY INC | $87,708 |
| HOOD COLLEGE | $87,432 |
| ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC | $74,209 |
| FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $71,891 |
| FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC | $69,028 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
155 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
- FHFrederick Health Hospital Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $10.0M · revenue +22%
- TATHE ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +132%
- SJSAINT JOHN'S CEMETERY INC4× · 2019–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +17% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- ETEMPOWERED TO LIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $75k
- MOMOUNT OLIVET CEMETERY INCone grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +20%
- TGTHE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INCgraduated2× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +96%
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.
See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.
Connecting businesses and the community through leadership, advocacy and education.
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
The association provides and promotes realtors education and cooperation. it promotes trust and confidence through the support of approximately 1,200 members.
Our mission is to provide information, understanding, education, and support for persons experiencing mental illness and their families. We are an all volunteer organization that provides its services and information materials free of…
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
To plan and implement special events and activities to offer the community a shared cultural experience.
Fred lind manor provides housing and assisted living services to persons 55 and older.
Feral Cat Rescue provides support for spay and neutering feral cats in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Expenses include spay, neutering, vaccination against rabies and distemper, micro chipping, parasite control both internal and external and…
The fuel fund of maryland (ffm) has been supporting bge residential customers since 1981. while we originated from bge, we operate independently to provide financial assistance grants specifically for bge residential customers at risk of…
To foster independence, growth and opportunities in elderhood by supporting a dynamic community, providing exceptional health services, developing collaborative relationships and upholding quaker values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Supporting Older Adults Through Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Get Kids Outside. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
188 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 188 of the 253 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Frederick Health Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEARTLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds C BURR ARTZ TRUST ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Frederick Health Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATTY POLLATOS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DE FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DELAPLAINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD LIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
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: Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · Ausherman Family Foundation · United Way of Frederick County Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Inc · Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · The George L Shields 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 Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland 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.
- Life and Discovery Inc — 100% of income from government
- Friends for Neighborhood Progress — 55% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
- Land and Cultural Preservation Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- The African American Resources-Cultural and Heritage Society Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Pride Center of Maryland Inc — 49% of income from government
- Brunswick Main Street Inc — 42% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Heartly House Inc — 33% of income from government
- Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Frederick Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Spanish-Speaking Community of Maryland Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Delaplaine Arts Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc — 2% of income from government
- Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc — 2% of income from government
- Frederick Health Hospital Inc — 2% of income from government
- Adventist Healthcare Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 0% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Ranch Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.