The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc

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The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc

Q: How much did The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc grant in FY2025?

The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc reported 77 itemized grants totaling $2,997,336, out of $3,723,793 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Q: Where is The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc based?

The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc is based in MD.

To promote philanthropy for the benefit of washington county md, especially through the creation of endowment funds to support the full spectrum of nonprofit activity and scholarships in the county.

$3.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$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 FY2017–2025.

Education$4.5MHuman Services$2.9MArts & Culture$2.2MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MRecreation & Sports$763kYouth Development$671kHousing & Shelter$341kAnimals$294kOther$3.6M

02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 77 grants below total $2,997,336 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,723,793 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $726,457 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 $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
Recipient	Amount
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 (FY17–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 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.

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.

$17M · 91 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

91 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 34 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

$17M

$693k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+13%

Still filing today

81%

54%

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 ServicesArts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther

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
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +25%
HC
HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +144%
MH
MERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +468%

Funded once

GL
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $50k
MS
MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
one grant, 2017 · $46k
ME
MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue 0%

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.

Howard County Chamber of Commerce

To represent the business community of howard county, maryland

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Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…

Education

Washington County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.

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Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health

Harford Memorial Hospital Inc

Dedication to maintaining and improving the health of the people in its communities through an integrated health delivery system that provides high quality care to all.

Health

Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

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

Health

University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boonsboro Sports Club Inc. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% 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 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/166

the rest of the field

16%

2,566/16,006

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.

04the grantee network

133 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. 133 of the 174 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

126/133

Grantees still filing

88/133

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$4,511,687Other$4,926,169Human Services$2,937,655Arts & Culture$2,189,014Health$2,058,362Philanthropy$1,136,416Recreation & Sports$762,806

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.

Richard N Funkhouser FoundationincMD74.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust · Pauline K Anderson 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 Washington 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

32get no government money at all

47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely 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: 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines