· Private foundation
William S Abell 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUBILEE ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND | $225,000 |
| PATHWAY HOMES INC | $150,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $125,000 |
| MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC | $100,000 |
| A WIDER CIRCLE INC | $75,000 |
| POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $75,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC | $75,000 |
| HELP DEVELOPMENT CORP | $60,000 |
| FARMING 4 HUNGER INC | $50,000 |
| CHANGING PERCEPTIONS | $50,000 |
| L'ARCHE INC | $40,800 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| MARY HOUSE INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
160 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 6 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- JHJUBILEE HOUSING INC5× · 2019–2023 · $751k · revenue +217%
- TJTHE JUBILEE ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC6× · 2018–2024 · $568k · revenue +264%
- PHPATHWAY HOMES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $375k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- HKHORTON'S KIDS INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -30%
- POPLATFORM OF HOPEone grant, 2020 · $70k
- JLJAYDOT LLCone grant, 2021 · $68k
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.
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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…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
We support the holistic needs of individuals and families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Housing is our starting point. Seeing people thrive is our finish line.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Woodley house enables district of columbia residents with mental health disorders to live full and healthy lives with dignity by providing supportive housing and services.
Our mission is to provide services of the highest quality for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities and related disorders including autism that optimize each individual's independence and capabilities, ensure…
Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathway Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red Line Parkway Initiative. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
184 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. 184 of the 233 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUBILEE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUBILEE ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE DC ↗
- Who funds FARMING 4 HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds End Hunger in Calvert County Inc ↗
- Who funds QUALITY TRUST FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds Passion and Compassion Inc ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HELP DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christ House ↗
- Who funds LARCHE Inc ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY AID CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND 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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Walter a Bloedorn 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 William S Abell 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Farming 4 Hunger Inc — 100% of income from government
- Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
- Community Advocates for Family and Youth — 23% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Casaprince George's County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- End Hunger in Calvert County Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Germantown Cultural Arts Centerinc — 10% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Maryland Youth Ballet Inc — 6% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Montgomery — 3% of income from government
- Niwap Inc — 3% of income from government
- Dancemakers Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Arc of Southern Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Arc of Prince George's County Inc — 2% of income from government
- Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Olney Theatre Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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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