· Community foundation
The Greater Bel Air Community Foundation Inc
Greater bel air community projects
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE GREATER BEL AIR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 3 grants below total $40,536 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,334 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,798 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKFIELD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HC | $10,000 |
| THE HIGHLAND SCHOOL | $5,536 |
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 (FY21–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WWWINTER WONDERLAND INC4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue -57% · 72% of their budget
- RFROCKFIELD FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +77%
- CLCEDAR LANE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $38k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- JCJOHN CARROLL SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MD UPPER CHESAPEAKEone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TCTHE CHAR HOPE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +725%
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.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
To develop arts and public spaces in the community; to spur economic development and the quality of community life in hyattsville; to encourage widespread community leadership for community revitalization; to promote educational activities…
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
To conduct recreational and educational activities to benefit the town of churchville and bel air citizens.
For the benefit of the citizens of md to enhance their knowledge and appreciation for agricultural businesses. to educate and assist farmers in developing agricultural operations that are viable and environmentally sustainable.
The preservation of land and conservation of natural resources for public enjoyment and passive recreation.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Our misson is to enhance the quality of life for residents in maryland. we accomplish our mission through community service programs and community outreach initiatives that promote improvement in the quality of youth and their families.
To promote successful volunteer fire and emergency medical service operations within harford county, maryland.
HC DrugFree provides prevention, treatment, recovery, and health, wellness resources and education to help Howard County residents develop knowledge and skills to understand and address behavioral health disorders substance abuse and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Harford County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chesapeake Therapeutic Riding Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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
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 WINTER WONDERLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LANE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAR HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds BEL AIR DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD COUNTY 4-H CLUBS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE LIRIODENDRON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LASOS Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL 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 Dresher Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Harford County Inc · Oluv C Joynor Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Greater Bel Air Community 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Greater Bel Air Community Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Greater Bel Air Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.