· Public charity
United Fund of Talbot County Inc
To stimulate the interests and coordinate the participation of the citizens of Talbot County on behalf of worthy educational, recreational, health, character building and human services organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $186,570 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $191,970 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,400 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $49,500 |
| ST MICHAELS COMM CTR | $22,320 |
| MID SHORE COUNCIL FAM | $18,000 |
| ST MARTINS MINISTRIES | $13,500 |
| TALBOT SPECIAL RIDERS | $13,500 |
| TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSN | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF TALBOT | $9,000 |
| BAAM | $9,000 |
| CHARACTER COUNTS MID S | $9,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CARE | $8,550 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $6,300 |
| UNITED NEEDS & ABILITIES | $5,400 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SMSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +69%
- TATILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue +41%
- PIPARTNERS IN CARE MARYLAND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATEone grant, 2017 · $17k
- USUPPER SHORE AGING INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +84%
- FAFOR ALL SEASONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +279%
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.
Provide care, treatment, rehabilitation, education, and training to the developmentally disabled and those with a mental health diagnoses
To provide residential care and treatment services for people with developmental disabilities and to provide life skills training to these individuals.
Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.
Human services, inc. is dedicated to hope, healing and recovery. we are committed to the highest quality of professional treatment programs and residential and homeless support services to the individuals, families and communities we serve…
Potomac case management services, inc. enhances the quality of life and maintains independence for individuals of the tri-state community through the use of advocacy and partnerships.
Social and mental health services to persons with developmental disabilities in order to help them live as independently as possible in the community.
The organization serves individuals with intellectual and development disabilities. services include person-centered (agency and family), day habilitation, respite, supported employment, service coordination, therapeutic consultant,…
Provides services and support to individuals with special needs to help them realize their full potential.
Supported living/residential services for adults with developmental disabilities. case management, care/medical coordination, personal care/adl's, medication monitoring/assistance, grocery shopping/errands and community building.
To provide support services to individuals who have developmental disabilities though family and individual services, residential programs, specialized home care, case management, housing programs, childrens programs and education advocacy.
To provide affordable housing for persons with disabilities.
To meet the needs of elders and the disabled adults. our goal is to enhance the quality and dignity of life for adults with disabilities or illnesses through supervision, restorative services, and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For All Seasons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tilghman Area Youth 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.
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 17 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 POSITIVE STRIDES INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER SHORE AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEEDS AND ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · United Way of Kent County Inc · The Caroline Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 United Fund of Talbot 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.
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Upper Shore Aging Inc — 24% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% 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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