· Private foundation
The Mhe 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 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $993k
- $250k+2 grants · $845k
Anchored by a single position — about 96% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Class A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $594,017 |
| CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY | $250,629 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER | $152,343 |
| Individual grant recipient | $103,808 |
| HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS | $102,948 |
| MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH | $102,402 |
| CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER | $100,720 |
| RESOURCE LEGACY FUND | $75,477 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY | $52,500 |
| ARCHBISIHOP SPALDING HIGH SCHOOL | $52,450 |
| ARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION | $50,360 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST | $50,000 |
| AAC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ESPERANZA EN ESCANTE | $50,000 |
| THE TALENT MACHINE COMPANY INC | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of your 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.
22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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
- CCCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $790k · revenue +116%
- HAHISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $439k · revenue +80%
- LHLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- JHJOHNS HOPKINSone grant, 2023 · $52k
- RARESILIENCE AUTHORITY OF AA COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS KRIEGER SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
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…
Chesapeake shakespeare company creates community through energetic, joyful, and accessible classic theatre, bringing our art to baltimore, the state of maryland, and beyond through innovative and comprehensible productions of shakespeare…
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 chesapeake audubon society works in the maryland region to promote the stewardship of natural ecosystems through conservation, restoration, education, and advocacy.
Advocate for and support abused and neglected children to ensure their right to safe, stable and permanent homes.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum cbmm is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the premier see sched o
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
The mission of chesapeake charities, inc. is to provide innovative leadership and quality services that encourage charitable giving, build community resources, and enable donors continued on schedule o
To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Bay Trust and the most unlike its peers is Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
19 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. 19 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 CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TALENT MACHINE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Esperanza En Escalante Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE 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: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Helena Foundation Inc · Koch Family Foundation Inc · Schuh Family Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc · Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · James G Corckran II Charitable Foundation Inc · Davidsonville Ruritan Foundation Inc · The Geaton and Joann Decesaris Family 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 Mhe 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc — 33% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Arundel Rivers Federation Inc — 19% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel 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.