· Public charity
Towercares Foundation Inc
Towercares supports children in need as well as brave and heroic individuals and their families who have sacrificed while protecting our freedom.
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.
The 33 grants below total $520,920 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,182,279 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $661,359 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $397k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER | $72,420 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $27,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY | $25,000 |
| FORT MEADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| HOWARD COUNTY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HORIZON DAY CAMP | $20,000 |
| NEIGHBOR RIDE | $18,500 |
| DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CASEY CARES | $15,000 |
| FISH OF LAUREL | $13,000 |
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, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- TJTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $372k · revenue +58%
- MTMARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +7%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL7× · 2018–2025 · $99k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ISINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INCone grant, 2018 · $25k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +13%
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +9%
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.
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.
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…
Carry on charitable and educational programs for active duty military, reserve, national guard, retired, and former members of the uniformed services and their family members and surviving spouses.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
54 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. 54 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 THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FORT MEADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT CASES INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND CENTER FOR VETERANS EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ATTAWAY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Hero Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF LAUREL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT MEADE SPOUSES CLUB ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO HOUSING STABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Angels ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON 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 United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Nora Roberts Foundation · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Give Back Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc · Phillips Charitable Foundation · Edward St John Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole 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 Towercares 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.
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Center On Institutions and Alternatives Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Comfort Cases 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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