· Private foundation
The Will Group Foundation Inc
The Will Group Foundation's mission is to foster donor legacy by responsibly giving to organizations that support community needs, with preference given to Frederick County (MD) and the surrounding area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASIAN AMERICAN CENTER OF FREDERICK | $30,000 |
| THE SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE FREDERICK CENTER | $10,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| OPERATION SECOND CHANCE | $5,000 |
| SUPPORTING OLDER ADULTS THROUGH RESOURCES(SOAR) | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE FREDERICK CHAPTER | $2,250 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $1,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| THE ANGEL FUND | $500 |
| FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $325 |
| CROSSROADS FREEDOM CENTER | $300 |
| HOPE CONNECTIONS | $200 |
| LINGANORE AREA YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC | $125 |
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 (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +32% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 14 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- FCFred Co Mental Health Assoc2× · 2022–2023 · $27k
- TFTHE FREDERICK CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +32%
- FFFrederick Family Partnership2× · 2022–2023 · $14k
Funded once
- BSBeyond Shelterone grant, 2023 · $8k
- FCFrederick Co Public Schoolsone grant, 2023 · $8k
- FHFrederick Health Hospice Incone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -16%
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 positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Supporting Older Adults Through Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Linganore Urbana Youth Athletic Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 25 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 LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC ↗
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- Who funds SAFE RIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Frederick Health Hospice Inc ↗
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- Who funds SUPPORTING OLDER ADULTS THROUGH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK CO ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINGANORE URBANA YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
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 Frederick County Maryland Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine 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 Will Group 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 and Discovery Inc — 100% 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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