· Private foundation
The Nathan Foundation Inc Ima Co Robert S
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| JAMES G BUSICK TENNIS FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| DORCHESTER COUNTY RECREATION AND PARKS | $21,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE | $18,000 |
| DORCEHSTER SKIPJACK COMMITTEE INC | $15,500 |
| CAMBRIDGE POWER BOAT RACING ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| PARTNERS IN GIVING | $6,000 |
| BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,500 |
| PLEASANT DAY ADULT DAY CARE | $5,000 |
| DORCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC | $5,000 |
| DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SUSALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $244k · revenue +65%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC4× · 2019–2022 · $120k · revenue +166%
- DSDORCHESTER SKIPJACK COMMITTEE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $82k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- ASA SAFE HARBOR LTDone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -63%
- AGALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -41%
- MLMACE'S LANE COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +49%
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 fire and rescue services in the new market, md area
The mission of essex volunteer fire company, inc. is to provide emergency services to citizens of baltimore county, maryland in their time of need. we accomplish this through education, prevention and protection of life and property with…
Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities
Community volunteer fire company providing fire protection and fire fighting services, ambulance and rescue service and other emergency services to the town of denton, md.
The mission of middle river volunteer fire and rescue co., inc. is to prepare for and respond to emergencies, protecting people, property, and the environment of middle river and the surrounding communities by fostering a progressive and…
Maintain and operate Volunteer Fire Company and Ambulance Association
Fire fighting
The organization is a volunteer fire department serving the town of kilmarnock, va and surrounding areas.
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
Provide fire protection for the residents of the village and town of fort ann.
Volunteer fire fighting and rescue services.
The mission of the middlesex township volunteer fire company is to provide fire and rescue services to the local community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is James G Busick Tennus Foundation 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 63 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 SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER SKIPJACK COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NANTICOKE HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOND SERVANTS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES G BUSICK TENNUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Outdoor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HARBOR LTD ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIENNA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ELDORADO BROOKVIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SECRETARY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Church Creek Volunteer Fire Co Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON VOL FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HURLOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds RESCUE FIRE CO ↗
- Who funds EAST NEW MARKET VOLUNTEER FIRE CO EAST NEW MARKET VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION 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 · Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust · Waddell Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · Richard and Peggy Greenfield Foundation · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Burke & Herbert Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment 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 Nathan Foundation Inc Ima Co Robert S 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.
- Mace's Lane Community Center — 100% of income from government
- Dorchester Center for the Arts Inc — 47% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation 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.