· Private foundation
Richard a Henson Foundation Inc
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 $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $586k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS FOUNDATION OF WICOMICO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000,000 |
| HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM | $395,077 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHORE | $252,580 |
| HEALTHPORT | $125,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTER SHORE | $115,200 |
| YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $90,000 |
| DELMARVA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $83,639 |
| ELEVEN 21 INC EPOCH DREAM CENTER | $72,000 |
| SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $26,000 |
| HAITIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF DELMARVA | $25,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF THE EASTERN SHORE | $25,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $788k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +99%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +64%
- TPTIDALHEALTH PENINSULA REGIONAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.8M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IRIM R A HENSON CRUT UW FBO RICHARD HENSON JRone grant, 2023 · $130k
- EEASTERSEALSone grant, 2024 · $25k
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue +1%
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.
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
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
Long term recovery response in the counties of maryland's eastern shore
To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…
The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.
The center's mission is to provide affordable, quality, primary and preventative health care services, oral health care services and mental health care services to the residents of somerset, wicomico and worcester counties in maryland.
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
The mission of salisbury neighborhood housing services, inc. is to cultivate sustainable neighborhoods with partnerships and lending that inspire self-reliance, growth and optimism.
The entity operates a sheltered workshop for handicapped clientele and an evaluation center for local organizations.
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The baltimore international seafarers' center is an inter-faith ministry rooted in the tradition of christian hospitality. we believe in the unconditional love of god for all people, and we demonstrate this love through our commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor and the most unlike its peers is Symphony 21. 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 31 years old; the field is 6. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 43% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 59 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 WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDALHEALTH PENINSULA REGIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ↗
- Who funds ELEVEN 21 INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE HAITIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF DELMARVA INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS DELMARVA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE AUTISM COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SKIPJACK HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SPACE FLIGHT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DOVE POINTE 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: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Salisbury Wicomico Economic Development Inc · Donnie Williams Foundation Inc · The Philip & Barbara Long Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc · Jack P and Anne R Smith Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co
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 Richard a Henson 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.
- Life Crisis Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
- Healthport Inc — 5% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional 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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