· Private foundation
The Richmond Lee Downey Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSPORT FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON CO | $4,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON C | $4,500 |
| MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON CO | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON CNTY COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +27% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +280%
- CFCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +9%
- TMTHE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- LRLEITERSBURG RURITAN COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -40%
- NCNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -6%
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 organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
It is the mission of the wicomico county free library to serve the people of wicomico county by supporting education, enriching lives, and building community.
Local museum and historical society
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.
Museum
Historical museum & educational society
Residents of county will receive accurate information in various formats through the dorchester county public library. this information will successfully address residents' high priority education, recreation, and informational needs in a…
Residents of queen anne's county will receive information and materials in various formats through public library service which successfully addresses their educational, informational and recreational needs in a cost effective manner.
Provide historical records and documents
Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.
The mission is implemented through: intentional art collecting in the focus areas of american art and world cultures, barrier free public access and free admission to art collections of national importance, vigilant preservation and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leitersburg Ruritan Community 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.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Wash Co Rural Heritage Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds LEITERSBURG RURITAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
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 Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · 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 Richmond Lee Downey Foundation 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.
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.