Grantee Overview
ENOUGH grantees are community-based organizations funded to implement anti-poverty strategies in census tracts. Grantees progress through three phases: Planning, Partnership, and Implementation.
Grantee Service Areas Include Non-Eligible Tracts
Grantees define their own community boundaries, which may extend beyond the eligible census tracts that qualified their application. Of the 114 tracts currently served by grantees, 49 (43%) do not independently meet full ENOUGH eligibility criteria under the current formula. This is by design — the ENOUGH statute allows a "community" geographic boundary to reach beyond the eligible census tract(s), and encourages applicants to scope their geography to support effective, place-based implementation.
Phase Distribution
Tracts by Grantee Phase
Grantees by Phase
Top Grantees by Census Tract Coverage
Largest Grantees (by Number of Tracts Served)
Coverage & Gaps
Key Distinction: Grantee Tracts vs. Eligible Tracts Served
Grantees serve 114 total census tracts, but only 62 of the 181 fully eligible tracts have an active grantee. The remaining 49 grantee tracts are non-eligible tracts within grantee community boundaries. A grantee's service area only needs to include at least one eligible tract to qualify — the community boundary can extend to neighboring non-eligible tracts.
Grantees With No Currently Eligible Tracts
Four grantee organizations serve communities where none of their census tracts currently meet full eligibility criteria under the 2026 formula: One Annapolis, Inc.; Anne Arundel County Partnership for Children, Youth, and Families; LifeStyles of Maryland Foundation, Inc.; and Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford and Cecil Counties. These grantees may have qualified under previous cycle criteria or serve tracts where eligibility has shifted due to ACS data updates.
Grantee Coverage vs. Eligible Tracts
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Grantee Poverty Concentration
Child Poverty Rate in Grantee Service Areas
Interpretation
Child poverty rates shown are calculated by summing children in poverty across all census tracts in a grantee's service area and dividing by the total child population across those tracts (2024 ACS 5-Year Estimates). This population-weighted approach gives a more accurate picture than averaging individual tract rates, which would equally weight a tract with 50 children and a tract with 1,200 children.