· Public charity
United Way of Charles County Inc
To provide all citizens of charles county the means to invest in their community to bring about positive changes in peoples' lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $35,123 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $46,773 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,650 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH PARTNERS INC | $14,000 |
| CHARLES COUNTY CHILDREN'S AID SOCIE | $7,923 |
| CENTER FOR ABUSED PERSONS | $6,905 |
| CHARLES COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $6,295 |
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 (FY17–20, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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 +6% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 5 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 FY2020, 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
- HPHealth Partners Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $47k · revenue +26%
- CCCOMMUNITY CRISIS & REFERRAL CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +59%
- CFCENTER FOR CHILDREN INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PTPORT TOBACCO RIVER CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -62%
- CCCharles County Meals on Wheels Inc Meals on Wheelsone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -95%
- LALEGAL AID BUREAU INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -10%
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.
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court in Harford County,…
The mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with people of all ages and abilities and those who support them in the community to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, and a meaningful community life.
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
Community Support Systems' mission is to help low- and moderate-income families and senior citizens access services, to provide direct assistance, and to provide local programs that will raise the quality of life, dignity, and independence…
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
Hopeworks mission is to provide support and advocacy for people in howard county affected by sexual and intimate partner violence and engage the community in creating the change required for prevention.
At our centers children are surrounded by a circle of care established new child advocacy centers cacs while also enhancing services at existing centers. we do this by providing training, resources and networking opportunities for child…
The mission of the Community Services Foundation of Cecil County is to foster, support and develop programs that enhance the well-being of children, families, older adults and persons with disabilities, and Cecil County's animal…
To improve the effectiveness of support services provied by public, non-profit and private agencies to residents of caroline county.
Partners in care, inc is dedicated to helping older adults live independently in their own homes and remain actively engaged in their communities.
Provide children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with community and employment services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charles County Childrens Aid Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Port Tobacco River Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS & REFERRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Charles County Childrens Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charles County ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PORT TOBACCO RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Charles County Meals on Wheels Inc Meals on Wheels ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES 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: Charles County Charitable Trust · Give Back Foundation · United Way of Southern Maryland · 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 Way of Charles 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.
- Promise Resource Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Center for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Jude House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 1% 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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