· Private foundation
William E Cross Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $76,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC | $40,500 |
| FREDERICK HEALTH HOSPITAL INC | $27,500 |
| BRETHREN DISASTER MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| FRED COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK | $20,000 |
| MISSION OF MERCY | $15,000 |
| FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC | $11,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY- FREDERICK CO | $11,000 |
| DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MONOCACY VALLEY | $10,000 |
| HEARTLY HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| NEELSVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF FREDERICK | $10,000 |
| THURMONT SENIOR CENTER INC | $5,000 |
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, $495k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
114 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $307k · revenue +25%
- FHFrederick Health Hospital Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $144k · revenue +21%
- MOMISSION OF MERCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK COgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +45%
- GOGULFSHORE OPERA LLCone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue -2%
- SASALVATION ARMY OF NAPLESone grant, 2021 · $11k
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 positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
The organization is dedicated to providing affordable services, resources and programs to help responsible pet owners keep their pets healthy, happy and in life-long homes.
To foster independence, growth and opportunities in elderhood by supporting a dynamic community, providing exceptional health services, developing collaborative relationships and upholding quaker values.
Fred lind manor provides housing and assisted living services to persons 55 and older.
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
Connecting businesses and the community through leadership, advocacy and education.
To provide high quality residential and assisted care and services for adults aged 65 and older of limited financial means in a home like environment where independence, dignity and self-worth are nurtured.
Inspired by the life of jesus, we create vibrant community for purposeful living.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.
Maryland inclusive housing corporation's (mih) mission is to help people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (idd) successfully access and maintain inclusive, affordable, and accessible housing of their choice by…
To enhance the quality of life, autonomy and dignity of marylanders with disabilities by offering cost effective trust services to protect, manage and use trust assets for beneficiaries while preserving eligibility for public and private…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Supporting Older Adults Through Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Monocacy Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 77% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 134 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.
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- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
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- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
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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 Frederick County Maryland Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · United Way of Frederick County Inc · We Cross Charitable Foundation Inc · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · Nora Roberts Foundation · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Inc · The George L Shields Foundation Inc · America's Charities
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 William E Cross 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.
- Friends for Neighborhood Progress — 55% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Heartly House Inc — 33% of income from government
- Camp Rehoboth Inc — 33% of income from government
- San Mar Children's Home Inc — 29% of income from government
- Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Frederick Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Main Street Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
- Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc — 2% of income from government
- Frederick Health Hospital Inc — 2% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Ranch Inc — 0% 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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