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4k Foundation Inc at a glance

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4k 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.

$320k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$834kReligion$665kHealth$457kCommunity Improvement$200kEducation$178kHuman Services$120kFood & Nutrition$101kPhilanthropy$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rebuilt Parish Inc$200,000
Church of the Nativity$33,000
Young Onset Parkinson's Network$25,000
Archdiocese of Baltimore$15,000
Believe Big$10,000
United Way of Greater High Point$10,000
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation$10,000
Carolina Core Academy$6,000
FRANCISCAN CENTER OF BALTIMORE$3,364
COVER THE CITY PROJECT$3,000
HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND$2,050
FOCUS (FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS)$1,200
EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL$1,000
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA$250
LEWIS MUSEUM$150
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVER THE CITY PROJECT: $3k → 16%House of Ruth Maryland: $33k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $33k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $33k → 19%Franciscan Center of Baltimore: $5k → 19%Franciscan Center: $5k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER OF BALTIMORE: $3k → 19%Franciscan Center: $3k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $2k → 19%Franciscan Center: $515 → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $300 → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $300 → 19%GENEROSITY GLOBAL: $500 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of 4k Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

4k Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
24

Total granted

$2.4M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+23%

Still filing today

60%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RP
    REBUILT PARISH INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $452k · revenue ×16
  • IW
    INNOVATION WORKS INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +279%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    Catholic Community Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • VE
    VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
2
Moveable Feast Inc

Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…

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3
Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health
5
Reboot Rx Inc

Reboot Rx is a nonprofit that expands access to affordable cancer treatments by repurposing generic drugs.

Health
6
St Paul Place Specialists Inc

To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.

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7
National Brain Tumor Society Inc

National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.

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8
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
9
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
10
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
11
Business Volunteers Maryland Inc

Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.

Community Improvement
12
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next One Up Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cover the City Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFEWATER INTERNATIONAL: $833,705 · OtherLIFEWATER INTERNATIONALYOUNG ONSET PARKINSONS NETWORK: $312,500 · OtherYOUNG ONSET PARKINSONS NETWORKChurch of the Nativity: $169,800 · OtherChurch of the NativityUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $151,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIATHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC+22 more: $83,160 · OtherREBUILT PARISH INC: $451,715 · ReligionREBUILT PARISH INC+1 more: $256 · ReligionINNOVATION WORKS INC: $200,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $125 · Community ImprovementCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $117,450 · HealthBelieve Big Inc: $23,272 · Health+3 more: $2,465 · HealthTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $102,650 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $16,912 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC: $39,503 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $2,025 · PhilanthropyEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $100 · Education
Other$1,650,165Religion$451,971Community Improvement$200,125Health$143,187Human Services$123,062Philanthropy$41,528Education$7,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREBUILT PARISH INC: $451,715 over 2y, 15% of budgetYOUNG ONSET PARKINSONS NETWORK: $312,500 over 4y, 87% of budgetINNOVATION WORKS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $117,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $102,650 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC: $39,503 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBelieve Big Inc: $23,272 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $16,912 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOVER THE CITY PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $2,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEROSITY-GLOBAL INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $215 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING HIGH POINT: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE TO BREATHE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

T Rowe Price Program …France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…Baltimore Community F…Edward St John Founda…The Marion I & Henry …The Kahlert Foundatio…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Abell Foundation …Servant FoundationAnnie E Casey Foundat…Truist Foundation Inc
T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD20.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 4k Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 4k Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home