· Public charity
United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc
Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $248,322 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $269,985 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,663 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REACH INC | $20,815 |
| SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| LADDERS TO LEADERS | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| WCPS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HAGERSTOWN AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| GATEKEEPERS | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING | $19,786 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $19,633 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $19,444 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $19,298 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $17,530 |
| CASA INC | $11,816 |
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 (FY21–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- RERELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +3%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $184k · revenue +4%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $166k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- WSWALNUT STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +27%
- BCBREAST CANCER AWARENESS INCone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue 0%
- OWONTRACK WASHINGTON COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -99%
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.
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.
To provide socialization opportunities, meaningful activities, a caring community that fosters mutual support, programs, activitities and an environment that foster recovery.
To enrich the quality of life for persons who have experienced problems related to the use or abuse of alcohol and other drugs. this organization will ensure that clients receive the appropriate level of drug/alcohol treatment, while…
Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.
The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
Welcome house of south county's mission is to provide emergency shelter, transitional & supported permanent housing to the homeless of washington county. we are committed to the well-being of our clients as we seek to provide affordable &…
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Hope, inc. assists those in need obtain healthcare, social, and basic living services. this is accomplished through outreach to the homeless, assessments of needs and eligibility, guidance and education, assistance with obtaining…
The women's housing coalition is dedicated to breaking the cycle ofhomelessness for women and children by providing affordable housingand supportive services to enable them to sustain social and financialindependence.
Provide housing and related services to financially disadvantaged elderly and/or persons with disabilities receiving hud rent subsidy assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Community Action Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ladders to Leaders Ltd. 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 27 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 RELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC (REACH) ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC/AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA - CITIZENS ASSISTING AND SHELTERING THE ABUSED INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MAR INC ↗
- Who funds GATEKEEPERS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WCPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE W HOUSE OF HAGERSTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LADDERS TO LEADERS LTD ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER AWARENESS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BEACON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ONTRACK WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SERVICE COALITION OF HANCOCK MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School 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 Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · Irving M Einbinder Charitable Foundation Incorporated · Pauline K Anderson Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · The Maryland Food Bank Inc · Firstenergy 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 Washington County Maryland 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.
- Boys & Girls Club of Washington County — 100% of income from government
- San Mar Inc — 100% of income from government
- Gatekeepers Corporation — 69% of income from government
- Hagerstown Goodwill Industries Inc — 44% of income from government
- Casa - Citizens Assisting and Sheltering the Abused Inc — 37% of income from government
- Washington County Commission On Aging Inc/Area Agency On Aging — 22% of income from government
- Walnut Street Community Health Center Inc — 18% of income from government
- Washington County Community Action Council Inc — 3% of income from government
- Interfaith Service Coalition of Hancock Maryland Inc — 2% 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.