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The May Foundation of Maryland
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $734,800 |
| FOR ALL SEASONS | $15,000 |
| HAVEN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER | $5,000 |
| MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARTIN'S HOUSE AND BARN | $5,000 |
| RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| THE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN SHORE | $2,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MD | $2,500 |
| QA CO MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $738k 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
- HMHAVEN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $40k · revenue +320%
- FAFOR ALL SEASONS INC2× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +203%
- SMSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC4× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- NSNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -6%
- QLQACHS LIONS BOOSTERS INCone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -91%
- CCCROSSROADS COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +15%
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.
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Our purpose is to establish an educational foundation of curiosity, confidence, and competence while practicing kindness to oneself, the community and nature.
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haven Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER COUNTS MID SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QACHS LIONS BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNES ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH 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 · Dock Street Foundation · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Clifton Foundation Inc · The Salmon Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Friel Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc
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 May Foundation of Maryland 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.
- For All Seasons 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.
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