· Private foundation
The John J Pohanka Family Foundation
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 $10k48 grants · $141k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $644k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNEDY CENTER | $215,000 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL | $130,878 |
| UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $125,000 |
| WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION | $98,456 |
| SAINT JAMES SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $75,800 |
| THE MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL | $75,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $75,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $57,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA | $42,500 |
| CARSON SCHOLARS FUND | $40,000 |
| FORESTVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PRINCE GEORGES | $32,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $30,240 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
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, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% 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.
93 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 51 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $361k 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
- GCGETTYSBURG COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $907k · revenue +18%
- WTWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS6× · 2018–2024 · $558k · revenue +62%
- WNWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +14% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $125k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Next Gen Personal Finance. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 301 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 GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE WAGNER SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Prince George's Business Roundtable Inc ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY ↗
- Who funds PAWFECTLY DELICIOUS DOG TREATS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Scott a & Phyllis P Crabtree Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company
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 John J Pohanka Family Foundation 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.
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- Mission of Love Charities Inc — 9% of income from government
- Jacobs Ladder Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional Inc — 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center 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.