· Private foundation
The Hedgelawn 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 $10k15 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINSTAY | $15,000 |
| KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| GARFIELD CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $6,667 |
| ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CHURCH HILL THEATRE | $4,500 |
| CHOPTANK TOLOMATO LEGACY PROJECT | $3,969 |
| KENT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND | $2,500 |
| KENT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WKHS | $2,500 |
| SULTANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HORIZON'S | $1,050 |
| MARTIN'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
| HIGH ROAD ARTISANS | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- KCKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +99%
- TMThe Mainstay Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +6%
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGE3× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- VSVIELLA SRL FOR UNIV OF WARWICKone grant, 2020 · $12k
- HFHOPE FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2020 · $12k
- UOUNIVERSTIY OF DELAWAREone grant, 2018 · $10k
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 Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
To preserve and promote the role that the chesapeake bay watermen played in the shaping of our nation through a historical display of crafts and methods of their trade.
Our mission is to create an environment of discovery about oneself, the peoples, the technologies and the ecologies of the Chesapeake Bay area for all children and the child in us all.
The annapolis maritime museum educates youth and adults about the annapolis areas rich maritime heritage and the ecology of the chesapeake bay through programs, exhibits, and community events. continued on schedule o
The chester historical society (chs) seeks to promote an interest in the history of chester, ct as a prototypical new england small town that has survived and thrived by adapting to changing cultural, economic and demographic environments.
Shriver hall concert series's mission is to enrich the baltimore community through outstanding chamber music and recital experiences.
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Choptank Tolomato Legacy Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 46 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 KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Mainstay Inc ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HILL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER RIVER CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHOPTANK TOLOMATO LEGACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF KENT CO MD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main · Barbara L Thomas Foundation · Fordi Family Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Hedgelawn 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.
- Kent Cultural Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Washington College — 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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