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United Way of Southern Maryland

Serves as agency for fundraising within southern maryland, and provides the allocations of collected funds to participating sec 501c3 organizations.

$227k
Granted FY2026still arriving
18
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.

Food & Nutrition$292kPhilanthropy$160kHealth$114kHuman Services$108kAnimals$89kHousing & Shelter$84kYouth Development$80kEducation$52kOther$0
02FY2026 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $186,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $227,178 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,178 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 · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $159k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POIEMA MOVEMENT INC$15,000
HEALTH PARTNERS INC$12,000
LIFESTYLES OF MD INC$12,000
CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY$12,000
IVY & PEARLS$12,000
LADIES OF CHARITY CALVERT CO$12,000
END HUNGER IN CALVERT CO$12,000
ST MARY'S CARING INC$12,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER- CHARLES CO$12,000
CALVERT CHURCHES COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$12,000
MARYLAND DIAPER BANK$12,000
HOPE INC$12,000
CHRISTMAS IN APRIL ST MARYS$12,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$6,000
ARC OF SOUTHERN MD$6,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–26, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HOPE INC: $12k → 11%SOUTHERN MARYLAND CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $8k → 8%SOUTHERN MARYLAND CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $8k → 8%SOUTHERN MD CTR FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $6k → 8%ST MARY'S CARING INC: $12k → 8%MARYLAND DIAPER BANK: $12k → 8%LIFESTYLES OF MD INC: $12k → 8%PROJECT ECHO: $9k → 5%PROJECT ECHO: $9k → 5%PROJECT ECHO: $5k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$665k · 18 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$665k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

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

  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $87k · revenue +6%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $82k · revenue +113%
  • EH
    End Hunger in Calvert County Inc
    4× · 2018–2026 · $45k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CC
    CALVERT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • AI
    AMPLEHARVESTORG INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue -4%
  • CM
    CalvertHealth Medical Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +26%

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.

1
Community Development Network of Maryland Inc

To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Community Improvement
2
Community Mediation of St Marys County Inc

Community mediation to resolve child custody, neighborhood disputes, and other matters rather than having them settled in court.

Crime & Legal
3
Hope Center of Maryland Inc

Assist low-income families

Food & Nutrition
4
Maryland C0MMUNITY Connection

Provide children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with community and employment services.

Human Services
5
Our Place Waldorf Inc

Our Place Waldorf provides residents in need in Charles County, Maryland with nutritious food in a welcoming, open, and friendly environment.

Food & Nutrition
6
Friends of Calvert County Seniors Inc

Friends of Calvert County Seniors provides assistance to low income seniors with dental care and small grants that are not otherwise provided through any government programs. We work closely with Office on Aging, Social Services, and the…

Human Services
7
Partners in Care Maryland Inc

Partners in care, inc is dedicated to helping older adults live independently in their own homes and remain actively engaged in their communities.

Philanthropy
8
Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal
9
Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Haven Ministries Inc

Providing hope to those in need in queen anne's county by supplying shelter, clothing, food, and support. programs include a homeless shelter, daily thread thrift shop, emergency food pantry, resource center, warehouse with job training,…

Housing & Shelter
11
Moveable Feast Inc

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…

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12
Coordinating Center for Home and Community Care Inc

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.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Housing Options & Planning Enterprises 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr17%10%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr14%38%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr14%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr17%7%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr10%37%35–55yr14%5%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
15%
282/1,895

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.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $87,168 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT COUNTY INC — $81,860 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT COUNTY INCCALVERT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES — $74,998 · OtherCALVERT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICESCALVERT HOSPICE INC — $53,086 · OtherCALVERT HOSPICE INCCALVERT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $42,000 · OtherCALVERT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSPROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $37,500 · OtherPROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INCCALVERT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — $33,000 · OtherCALVERT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTCALVERT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $30,060 · OtherCENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $24,550 · Other+14 more — $132,691 · Other+14 moreFARMING 4 HUNGER INC — $53,138 · Food & NutritionFARMING 4 HUNGER …End Hunger in Calvert County Inc — $45,000 · Food & NutritionEnd Hunger in Cal…AMPLEHARVESTORG INC — $36,202 · Food & NutritionAMPLEHARVESTORG I…CALVERT CHURCHES COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $12,000 · Food & NutritionCALVERT CHURCHES …LADIES OF CHARITY CALVERT COUNTY INC — $12,000 · Food & NutritionLADIES OF CHARITY…PROJECT ECHO INC — $23,618 · Human ServicesPROJECT EC…SOUTHERN MARYLAND CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN M…STMARY'SCARINGINC — $12,000 · Human ServicesSTMARY'SCA…MARYLAND DIAPER BANK — $12,000 · Human ServicesMARYLAND D…HOUSING OPTIONS & PLANNING ENTERPRISES INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING OP…LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesLIFESTYLES…THE EAST-JOHN YOUTH CENTER INC — $41,946 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND — $33,071 · Youth DevelopmentCalvertHealth Medical Center Inc — $30,000 · HealthCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF SOUTHERN MA — $8,553 · HealthChristmas-In-April Calvert County Inc — $21,857 · Housing & ShelterChristmas in April Charles County — $12,000 · Housing & ShelterPOIEMA MOVEMENT INC — $15,000 · Religion
Other$596,913Food & Nutrition$158,340Human Services$93,618Youth Development$75,017Health$38,553Housing & Shelter$33,857Religion$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $87,168 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT COUNTY INC — $81,860 over 3y, 13% of budgetFARMING 4 HUNGER INC — $53,138 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCALVERT HOSPICE INC — $53,086 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEnd Hunger in Calvert County Inc — $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EAST-JOHN YOUTH CENTER INC — $41,946 over 4y, 22% of budgetPROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $37,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMPLEHARVESTORG INC — $36,202 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND — $33,071 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $24,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN MARYLAND CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $22,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetChristmas-In-April Calvert County Inc — $21,857 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetSOUTHERN MARYLAND COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF SOUTHERN MA — $8,553 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCALVERT ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC — $7,523 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Charles County Charit…Give Back FoundationHelp Association IncWilliam S Abell Found…Community Foundation …God's Bounty IncUnited Way of Charles…Chesapeake Charities …The Maryland Food Ban…Nora Roberts Foundati…Dominion Energy Chari…Charities Aid Foundat…
Charles County Charitable TrustMD36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles County Charitable Trust · Give Back Foundation · Help Association Inc · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · God's Bounty Inc · United Way of Charles County Inc · Chesapeake Charities Inc · The Maryland Food Bank Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Southern Maryland 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.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc — 76% of income from government
  • End Hunger in Calvert County Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Promise Resource Center Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Maryland Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Center for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Southern Maryland Center for Independent Living Inc — 13% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Arc of Southern Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
  • CalvertHealth Medical Center Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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