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Vincent Rauth Groh and Barbara Ingram Groh Perpetual Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$119k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of VINCENT RAUTH GROH AND BARBARA INGRAM GROH PERPETUAL CHARITABLE TR’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.

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$100,327
BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$10,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$6,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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 (FY20–24, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $100k → 12%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $55k → 12%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $50k → 12%THE ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $50k → 12%HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $10k → 12%HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $5k → 12%HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY INC: $2k → 12%HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY INC: $2k → 12%HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY INC: $2k → 12%HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY INC: $2k → 12%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 12 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+38%

Still filing today

67%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AO
    ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +45%
  • MS
    MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $151k · revenue +64%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON CO
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +16%

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
Washington County Free Library

The mission of the washington county free library system is to continually improve our service to the public by:* providing the public with free access to library materials in a variety of formats* promoting community enrichment, economic…

Education
2
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

The mission is implemented through: intentional art collecting in the focus areas of american art and world cultures, barrier free public access and free admission to art collections of national importance, vigilant preservation and…

Arts & Culture
3
Washington County Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.

Community Improvement
4
Washington County Historical Society Inc

Historical museum & educational society

Arts & Culture
5
Hospice Care Corporation D/B/a West Virginia Caring

To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.

6
The Washington County Humane Society Inc

Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.

Animals
7
Hospice of Washington County Inc

To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…

8
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Washington Vocational Services

To provide job development, job seeking skills and job placement for persons with disabilities. we are dedicated to providing outstanding quality services that result in successful community involvement and employment for persons with…

Employment
11
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture
12
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $1,024,000 · OtherBARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSMARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $150,827 · OtherMARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON CO — $50,000 · Other+12 more — $138,500 · Other+12 moreARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $255,000 · Human ServicesARC OF WASHINGTON …HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF WASHING…+1 more — $8,000 · Human ServicesWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $26,500 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc — $4,500 · Crime & LegalCASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC — $1,500 · Crime & LegalWest Virginia Futbol Club Inc — $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,363,327Human Services$278,000Education$46,500Arts & Culture$15,000Crime & Legal$6,000Recreation & Sports$4,000

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 budgetARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $255,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $150,827 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $26,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetALEXANDER HAMILTON MEMORIAL FREE LIBRARY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY — $8,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWest Virginia Futbol Club Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds ALEXANDER HAMILTON MEMORIAL FREE LIBRARY
  • Who funds HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC
  • Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc
  • Who funds West Virginia Futbol Club Inc
  • Who funds CASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE 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.

The Hamilton Family Foundation IncMD17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · Nora Roberts Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organization Vincent Rauth Groh and Barbara Ingram Groh Perpetual Charitable Tr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 56%
  • Washington County Arts Council Inc56% of income from government
  • Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Vincent Rauth Groh and Barbara Ingram Groh Perpetual Charitable Tr?

Find your warmest path to Vincent Rauth Groh and Barbara Ingram Groh Perpetual Charitable Tr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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