· Public charity
Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc
The tourism council of frederick county is a public-private partnership dedicated to enhancing the economic benefit of tourism for frederick county's businesses, attractions, local governments, and residents.
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 $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $564k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP | $238,854 |
| WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $89,189 |
| BRUNSWICK MAIN STREET | $66,522 |
| NATIONAL SHRINE OF SAINT ELIZABETH ANN SETON | $58,140 |
| MAIN STREET MIDDLETOWN | $56,703 |
| THURMONT MAIN STREET | $54,278 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CIVIL WAR MEDICINE INC | $49,078 |
| THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR | $40,800 |
| CATOCTIN FURNACE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $38,221 |
| MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE | $35,040 |
| DELAPLAINE ARTS CENTER | $26,570 |
| GREENSPRING FOUNDATION | $18,649 |
| NEW MARKET MAIN STREET | $17,516 |
| NATIONAL SHRINE GROTTO ON THE CAMPUS OF MOUNT ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $15,296 |
| THE COMMUNITY FDN OF FREDERICK CO MD INC | $13,750 |
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 (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +37% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- DFDOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +115%
- MSMAIN STREET MIDDLETOWN MD INC7× · 2019–2025 · $380k · revenue +121% · 58% of their budget
- HOHEART OF THE CIVIL WAR HERITAGE AREA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- COCITY OF BRUNSWICKone grant, 2020 · $22k
- TOTOWN OF NEW MARKETone grant, 2022 · $22k
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 mission of the fredericksburg area museum and cultural center (famcc) is to collect, interpret and present the history and culture of the fredericksburg area. it is a learning center that seeks to educate students and the visiting…
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
The purpose of the association shall be to acquire, document catalogue, preserve, and display artifacts and other items related to the history of frostburg, maryland, its people and its environs, and
The organization is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting existing and developing arts organizations by providing various grants, technical assistance, scholarships, and advocacy, in the promotion of local arts,…
Promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, natural landmarks, and communities of Frederick County MD, and strive to increase knowledge and appreciation of them. Share the knowledge of historical places in Frederick.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
The objective of the franklin county historical society - kittochtinny shall be to foster increased knowledge of the history of franklin county and the cumberland valley through a museum and library, to publish papers of the corporation at…
The mission of Fell's Point Main Street is to promote and encourage economic development while strengthening and revitalizing the greater Fell's Point business district in ways that meet the needs of businesses, residents, and visitors…
Connecting businesses and the community through leadership, advocacy and education.
To plan and implement special events and activities to offer the community a shared cultural experience.
The society serves as the center for chesterfield county history. our mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and promote the countys unique past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Delaplaine Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brunswick-Potomac 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MIDDLETOWN MD INC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE CIVIL WAR HERITAGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CIVIL WAR MEDICINE I ↗
- Who funds CATOCTIN FURNACE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lamprey Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HARPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DELAPLAINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES-CULTURAL AND HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTYTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FLY FISHERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Frederick Health Inc ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARROLL CREEK URBAN PARK 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: The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The George L Shields 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 Tourism Council of Frederick County 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.
- The African American Resources-Cultural and Heritage Society Inc — 49% of income from government
- Brunswick Main Street Inc — 42% of income from government
- Main Street Middletown Md Inc — 26% of income from government
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Delaplaine Arts Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University 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.