· Private foundation
The Mathias Washington County Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washington County Museum | $60,650 |
| San Mar Childrens Home | $60,650 |
| YMCA | $60,650 |
| Boys Girls Club | $60,650 |
| Fahrney Keedy Home | $60,650 |
| Boy Scouts of Washington County | $60,650 |
| United Way | $60,650 |
| Cedar Ridge Childrens Home | $8,000 |
| Community Free Clinic | $7,500 |
| Women of Valor Ministries | $7,500 |
| Ft Ritchie Community Center | $5,000 |
| Maryland Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Easter Seals | $5,000 |
| Hagerstown Area Pregnancy Center | $5,000 |
| Hagerstown Helping Hands | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $622k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SMSAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $564k · revenue +96%
- YOYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $564k · revenue +32%
- CFCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- WCWashington County Council of Churchone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BLBrook Lane Hospitalone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FHFarmers Hunters Feeding the Hungrone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 westminster rescue mission is a community that provides clinical, physical, and spiritual resources to heal the addicted and feed the hungry. we take a holistic approach with christ as the foundation of our work.
Providing hope to those in need in queen anne's county by supplying shelter, clothing, food, and support. programs include a homeless shelter, daily thread thrift shop, emergency food pantry, resource center, warehouse with job training,…
Manna food center, inc strives to end hunger in our community through education, advocacy, and food distribution to individuals and partner agencies. manna's guiding principles are to be service-driven, community- centered and…
Feeding my sheep is a nonprofit organization that wants to work in partnership with people of faith and conscience around southwest virginia to end hunger and give hope to the needy. we believe that every person has the basic right to live…
The mission of the organization is to inspire hope in our communities by providing food to nourish delawareans, while collaborating on long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
Fighting food insecurity in our area by providing nutritious food and community support to our neighbors in need, as well as offering and linking our clients to wraparound resources that will enable them to build healthy and stable lives.
We are a church ministry serving Baltimore, Maryland and surrounding communities. We at Zion Deliverance Center are a light and a safe haven within our community. We are consistently reaching out to build strong families and bring…
Since 1914, bethesda mission has been a missionary arm of the local church, reaching out to men, women, and children of all races, nationalities, and creeds, providing the poor and homeless with shelter, food, clothing, sharing the good…
Provide food for the needy
To provide food and financial support for persons at risk of hunger and homelessness living in western Fairfax County Virginia.
Work in partnership with faith communities, not-for-profit organizations, businesses, and concerned citizens to provide groceries, self-sufficency assessments, training and other services to local families and individuals in need.
Community Bridges mission is to build strong partnerships among churches businesses hospitals schools nonprofits foster networks and the sober living community to meet basic needs and provide life skills education for low-income households…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hagerstown Day Nursery. 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 44 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 SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF VALOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Tabithas Table Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FARMERS & HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY 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: The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc · Holzapfel Family Charitable Foundation C/O James Holzapfel · Pauline K Anderson Foundation Inc · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · 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 Mathias Washington County Charitable Trust 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.
- San Mar Children's Home Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% 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.