· Private foundation
The Dresher Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY | $1,147,000 |
| HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE | $200,000 |
| ADDICTION CONNECTIONS RESOURCE INC | $100,000 |
| UMBC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE EPICENTER - EDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER | $95,000 |
| MASON-DIXON COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $76,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SUSQUEHANNA | $75,000 |
| UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE | $63,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM | $60,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| HOMECOMING PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MD INC | $50,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
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, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 14 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- HFHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $905k · revenue +178%
- UCUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $571k · revenue +139%
- ECEDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $538k · revenue +506%
Funded once
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $150k
- BMBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +116%
- MSMARYLAND STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $115k
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.
The organization provides mental healthcare to the communities in harford county, maryland.
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.
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 care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
Housing unlimited, inc. is a non-profit dedicated to providing affordable, permanent housing opportunities and independent living for adults in mental health recovery.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
44-Bed licensed nursing home in Hyattsville, Maryland that provides nursing care services to its residents
The mission of hartwood foundation, inc. (the foundation) is to provide services for persons with developmental disabilities by furnishing housing and training in independent living.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
Provision of home health services including community outreach programs with an emphasis on detection and prevention of common illnesses and disease.
The organization served approximately 5,000 people - more than 100 people take part in services offered at penn-north each day. clinical services are provided to over 800 clients per year.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Health Education Program and the most unlike its peers is It is Well International 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.
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 16. 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 1% 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.
137 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. 137 of the 232 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION CONNECTIONS RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOMING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SUSQUEHANNA INC ↗
- Who funds MASON-DIXON COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANIM INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Communities & Civic Agencies United Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD DAY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRAISING THROUGH RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA FRESH START FURNISHINGS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
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: Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Community Foundation of Harford County Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Society Italian-American Business · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Greater Bel Air Community Foundation Inc · Carmen and Victoria Deyesu Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph and Shirley Klein 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 Dresher Foundation 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Blind Industries & Services of Maryland — 100% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Araminta Freedom Initiative — 26% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- West Cecil Health Center — 24% of income from government
- Maryland Conservatory of Music Inc — 23% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Harford Land Trust Inc — 15% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Harford Community Action Agency Inc — 9% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Susquehanna Workforce Network Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harry K Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Love Inc of Mid Delmarva Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Delmarva Christian Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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.
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