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Waddell Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JOHN & JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CASA OF THE MID-SHORED | $5,000 |
| ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE DOR CTY LIBRARY | $3,455 |
| MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY | $3,000 |
| DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $3,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ST ANDREWS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION | $1,000 |
| DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| CHOPTANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CSDHS SPORTS BOOSTERS INC | $1,000 |
| DORCHESTER CNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Waddell Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- COCASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC5× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +75%
- OMONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +112%
- TPTHE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- PFPAULINE F & DAVID ROBBINS FAMILY YMone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TSTHE SALAVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $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.
To oversee and encourage economic and social development of the brunswick mainstreet section of brunswick md
Charitable and educational purposes including, but not limited to, the provision and operation of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing and related supportive services for low income individuals.
To preserve and promote the role that the chesapeake bay watermen played in the shaping of our nation through a historical display of crafts and methods of their trade.
To collect, preserve, and share local chesapeake history celebrating the culture around the chesapeake bay - past, present, and future - through oral histories, collections, exhibitions, and community outreach.
Educational charters on the chesapeake bay and it's tributaries for students and adults. thousands of passengers sailed on our floating museum for an educational experience.
Educational sails on an oyster dredging skipjack
Museum of lighthouse and marine artifacts
The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvesting Hope Youth and Families Services. 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 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 66 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 JOHN AND JANICE WYATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds DR THERESA STAFFORD'S NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR POINT INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC ↗
- Who funds HARRIETS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BROWN BOX THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES G BUSICK TENNUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS HEARTS HORSEMANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SAILWINDS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds AWAKEN HEARTS 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Pauline F & W David Robbins Charitable Foundation Trust · The Nathan Foundation Inc Ima Co Robert S · Dock Street Foundation · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Richard and Peggy Greenfield Foundation · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts 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 Waddell 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.
- Dorchester Center for the Arts Inc — 47% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 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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