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Arbor Dog 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.

$414k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$550kYouth Development$215kHealth$163kEnvironment$156kCommunity Improvement$82kHuman Services$81kArts & Culture$66kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $312k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC$23,000
FRIENDS OF CLIFTON MANSION$20,000
IRVINE NATURE CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES$15,000
CYLBURN ARBORETUM ASSOC$14,000
MSGR ODWYER RETREAT HOUSE$12,500
BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOOLARSHIP$12,500
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$12,000
ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$12,000
GIRLS EMPOWERMENT MISSION GEM$11,000
HELPING UP MISSION OF BALTIMORE CIT$10,000
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC$10,000
FRIENDS SCHOOL$10,000
I AM MENTALITY YOUTH MALE EMPOWERME$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TALMAR: $2k → 19%TURNAROUND TUESDAY: $20k → 19%TURNAROUND TUESDAY: $18k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $15k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $10k → 19%THE FRANCISCAN CENTER: $5k → 19%TURN AROUND: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 45 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
25

Total granted

$1.1M
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+1%

Still filing today

60%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CLIFTON MANSION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +227% · 42% of their budget
  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +37%
  • IN
    IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • ND
    NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • WP
    WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -5%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Baltimore Montessori Inc

To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.

Education
2
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
3
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Inc

Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.

Religion
6
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
The Ivymount School Inc

Nonprofit organization that provides educational programs and therapeutic services that invest in the abilities of neurodivergent children and young adults with unique learning needs including special education.

Education
8
Baltimore Green Space

Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.

Environment
9
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
11
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Clifton Mansion Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr16%11%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr22%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%12%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr22%29%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
14%
1,512/11,102

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 96 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STJOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION (UMD) — $35,000 · OtherBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST (BEST) — $33,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $32,000 · OtherGEM(GIRLS EMPOWERMENT MISSION) — $31,100 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY — $30,000 · OtherST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $29,500 · OtherBACK ON MY FEET (BALTIMORE CHAPTER) — $25,000 · OtherSISTERS ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INC — $22,500 · OtherWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC — $30,000 · OtherFIRST FRUITS FARM INC — $25,000 · Other+46 more — $374,013 · Other+46 moreTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC — $133,500 · EducationTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL O…THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $34,000 · EducationTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION …CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC — $30,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INCBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC — $25,000 · EducationBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PRO…GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationGREEN STREET ACADEMY INCTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INCCIVIC WORKS INC — $20,000 · EducationCIVIC WORKS INCFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $12,000 · Education+5 more — $40,200 · Education+5 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHESAPEAKE B…THREAD INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INCPROJECT PNEUMA INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT PNEU…Mentoring Mentors Inc — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentMentoring Me…I AM MENTALITY INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentI AM MENTALI…IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $38,000 · EnvironmentIRVINE NAT…ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentROLAND PAR…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE…CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC — $19,000 · EnvironmentCYLBURN AR…BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC — $18,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE …NEIGHBORSPACE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $9,500 · EnvironmentNEIGHBORSP…LIFEBRIDGE CENTER FOR HOPE INC — $32,000 · HealthSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $20,000 · HealthUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc — $12,000 · HealthBALTIMORE INTERGROUP COUNCIL OF AA — $5,800 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC — $5,000 · HealthNORTHWEST HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $5,000 · HealthLOST VOICES OF FENTANYL INC — $3,400 · Health+2 more — $3,000 · HealthTurnaround Tuesday Inc — $37,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTURNAROUND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF CLIFTON MANSION INC — $65,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$667,113Education$334,700Youth Development$163,000Environment$139,500Health$86,200Human Services$79,000Arts & Culture$66,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC — $133,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CLIFTON MANSION INC — $65,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $38,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTurnaround Tuesday Inc — $37,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHREAD INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $34,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE CENTER FOR HOPE INC — $32,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT PNEUMA INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMentoring Mentors Inc — $23,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILD METRO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC WORKS INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetI AM MENTALITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWESTMINSTER RESCUE MISSION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIDE OF BALTIMORE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTURNAROUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $9,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $7,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE INTERGROUP COUNCIL OF AA — $5,800 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Opportunity Incorporated — $4,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOST VOICES OF FENTANYL INC — $3,400 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Program …The Abell Foundation …Brown Advisory Charit…Associated Jewish Cha…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Harry and Jeanett…The Marion I & Henry …Clayton Baker TrustT Rowe Price Foundati…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD71.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · T Rowe Price 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 Arbor Dog 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Autism Society of Maryland Inc — 67% of income from government
  • Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Talmar Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Pride of Baltimore Inc — 30% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Turnaround Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Northwest Hospital Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Arbor Dog Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Arbor Dog Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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