· Private foundation
The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $65,500 |
| SAN MAR FAMILY & COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $20,000 |
| EASTER SEALS | $12,500 |
| BUTTONWOOD NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CASA INC | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON THE AGING | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
| MIDDLETOWN VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE GARAGE INC | $10,000 |
| SAINT JAMES SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $7,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON CO | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN IN NEED INC | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +25%
- TMTHE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +27%
- MHMERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue +468%
Funded once
- SCSTAR COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue -5%
- HAHAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -81%
- MSMARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.
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,…
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
Provide behavioral guidance and promote health, social, educational and vocational development of boys and girls six to eighteen years of age.
Promotes the arts and related activities at local, state and national levels
To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.
To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
The washington conservatory of music provides exceptional musical learning & listening experiences for students and the community. its vision is a community inspired and informed by the experience of music.
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES GARAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC/AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Potomac Playmakers Inc ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTONWOOD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF VALOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MASON-DIXON COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IT'S A BLESSING TO BE A BLESSING ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Holzapfel Family Charitable Foundation C/O James Holzapfel
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Meritus Health Foundation Inc: 94% of income from government
- Potomac Playmakers Inc: 31% of income from government
- San Mar Children's Home Inc: 29% of income from government
- Washington County Commission On Aging Inc/Area Agency On Aging: 19% of income from government
- Washington County Community Action Council Inc: 7% of income from government
- Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc: 5% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts: 2% of income from government
- Star Community Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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