· Private foundation
W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of W LEE & ROSALIE RIDENOUR FOUNDATION 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS INC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $6,100 |
| INTERFAITH SERVICE COALITION OF | $4,000 |
| IT'S A BLESSING TO BE A BLESSING | $4,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY2× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +56%
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY2× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +3%
- CICHILDREN IN NEED INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +21%
- MFMASSB FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +35%
- WCWASHINGTON CO FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Food distribution to needy individuals and families.
Our Place Waldorf provides residents in need in Charles County, Maryland with nutritious food in a welcoming, open, and friendly environment.
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Assist low-income families
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.
To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide socialization opportunities, meaningful activities, a caring community that fosters mutual support, programs, activitities and an environment that foster recovery.
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
The washington christian outreach provides assistance and services to those within and outside washington county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Living Alternatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hagerstown Day Nursery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Senior Living Alternatives Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds IT'S A BLESSING TO BE A BLESSING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MASSB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST AND CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC (REACH) ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Tabithas Table Inc ↗
- Who funds Mount Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
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 · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · The Mathias Washington County Charitable Trust · Agnita M Stine Schreiber Foundation · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Richmond Lee Downey 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 W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation 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.
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts — 2% of income from government
- Star Community 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.
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