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UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC
To identify the human service needs of the community; promote member agency programs in an effort to increase public understanding and financial and volunteer support; solicit funds for these agencies by conducting an annual fund-raising campaign; and allocate these funds, giving emphasis to those agencies with programs that address…
$172k
Granted FY2024
17
Grants
2
Communities
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
educationsafeincomegrowthenvironmentsheltercreate
2022
safeeducationenvironmentsheltercreategrowthawareness
2023
educationsafeawarenesspersonsgrowthshelterincome
2024
awarenesseducationcreategrowthsafeeducationallearning
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 17 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$8,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
- FOR ALL SEASONS INC$18,000
- HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S$11,500
- MID-SHORE PRO BONO$10,000
- MARYLAND FOOD BANK$10,000
- ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL$10,000
- MID-SHORE COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCE$10,000
- KENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY$9,000
- SAMARITAN GROUP INC$8,500
- ROCK HALL SDA CHURCH$8,500
- MINARY'S DREAM ALLIANCE$8,000
- OPEN DOORS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$8,000
- EASTER SEAL SOCIETY$7,500
- COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$7,500
- COMMUNITY MEDIATION UPPER SHORE INC$6,500
- KENT COUNTY CARES FOUNDATION$6,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$716k · 18 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
2
Total granted
$716k
$18k
Still filing today
78%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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
- FAFOR ALL SEASONS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $101k · revenue +166%
- EHECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +11%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY6× · 2019–2024 · $68k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- HSHORIZONS STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $11k
- MSMID SHORE COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCone grant, 2019 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Keep Kent Scenic Inc
Environmental and educational organization dedicated to the preservation of Kent County, MD
Environment
2
Historical Society of Kent Co Md
County historical society providing for preservation and collection of materials relating to local county history. maintain and operate historic house museum.
Arts & Culture
3
Kent Economic Partnership Inc
The kent economic partnership (kep) is a non-profit organization created to support and expand business interests throughout central delaware.
Community Improvement
4
Kent Affordable Housing Inc
The mission of kent affordable housing is to develop, sustain, and advocate for affordable housing in the town of kent, connecticut.
Housing & Shelter
5
Kent Cultural Alliance Inc
To encourage, promote, and support arts and humanities activities in kent county, md and the upper eastern shore region of maryland.
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6
Kent School
Non-profit, independent, preparatory school; educating approx. 470 boarding & 50 day students. kent school is guided by its motto - simplicity of life, directness of purpose, self- reliance - to educate our students intellectually,…
Education
7
Kent Historical Society
Organization that strives to be the primary kent history resource and reference center, leading the community in the collection, preservation and interpretation of kent's heritage through exhibits, educational programs and activities. the…
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8
Kent Free Library Foundation Inc
To fund activities and programs of the kent free library.
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9
Ada Howe Kent Memorial Shelter Inc
The mission of the Kent Animal Shelter is to provide a no-kill haven for homeless, abused and abandoned animals until permanent homes can be found. Our rescue program provides a lifeline to the many homeless animals at shelters that do not…
Animals
10
Kent-Delord House Museum
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11
Garrett County Maryland Community
To improve the quality of life for people in need by empowering them to become more self-sufficient by providing essential services in collaboration and cooperation with other community based organizations.
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12
Kent & Queen Anne's Rescue Squadin
Provide ambulance & emergency medical assistance to the citizens of chestertown, md and outlying rural areas.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Togetherkent County Md and the most unlike its peers is For All Seasons Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$401,008Human Services$165,145Education$73,280Environment$68,648Crime & Legal$30,500Housing & Shelter$22,000
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 FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds KENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY ↗
- Who funds MID-SHORE COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDIATION UPPER SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SHORE PRO BONO ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER KENT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER SHORE AGING ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTIN'S MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FOOD BANK ↗
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.
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD35.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Caroline Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF KENT 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Upper Shore Aging Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SAMARITAN GROUP INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +82% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 562482514 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SAMARITAN GROUP INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to United Way of Kent County Inc?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Kent County Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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