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Baltimore Civic Fund Inc

The baltimore civic fund works to connect government and philanthropy to improve residents' quality of life.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$613k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$3.7MCommunity Improvement$3.0MHuman Services$2.9MHealth$2.4MHousing & Shelter$826kArts & Culture$826kYouth Development$730kEmployment$411kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $422k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $461k
  • $250k+2 grants · $897k
$11,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC WORKS$612,786
BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS$284,518
BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SYSTE$80,022
PASS IT ON INC$68,475
DENT EDUCATION INC$62,161
LET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS$50,000
A PROSPEROUS TOMORROW$50,000
NPOWER INC$50,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$50,000
OPEN WORKS$50,000
LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC$46,710
MIDTOWN COMMUNITY FUND INC$37,500
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$37,363
BALTIMORE GREEN SPACE$36,230
GRANTS UNDER 5000$30,781
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 (FY23–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE: $28k → 6%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $47k → 11%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $25k → 19%HEARTS OF HOPE INC: $10k → 11%BALTIMORE URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATI: $10k → 19%MARIPOSA CHILD SUCCESS PROGRAMS: $25k → 19%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $100k → 19%INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICE USA BR: $50k → 19%THE LAZARUS RITE INC: $414k → 19%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $45k → 19%VOLO CITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%BALTIMORE ADOLESCENT TREATMENT & GU: $25k → 19%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $14k → 19%SHARP DRESSED MAN: $8k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $677k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $339k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $285k → 19%PATHWAY FORWARD INC: $7k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $50k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $40k → 19%UPTON PLANNING COMMITTEE: $38k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $20k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $8k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 46 repeat orgs$7.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
319

Total granted

$22M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+18%

Still filing today

50%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $653k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther

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

  • BS
    Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +44%
  • BE
    Broadway East CDC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $662k · revenue +14% · 42% of their budget
  • PH
    PARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $646k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • LR
    LAZARUS RITE
    one grant, 2023 · $414k
  • GL
    GRANTS LES THAN 5000
    one grant, 2023 · $118k
  • MP
    MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $111k · revenue +22%

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 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
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
—
3
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

—
4
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…

—
5
Baltimore Development Corporation

The baltimore development corporation (bdc) is a non-profit organization that serves as the economic development agency for the city of baltimore. bdc's mission is to grow the city's economy in an inclusive, equitable manner by retaining,…

Community Improvement
6
Community Development Network of Maryland Inc

To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Community Improvement
7
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

—
8
Baltimore Unity Hall Inc
Community Improvement
9
Innovation Works Inc

The corporation will develop sustainable neighborhood economies in depressed areas by: igniting interest in sustainable social enterprise, helping individuals transform challenges into opportunities, creating sustainable social…

Community Improvement
10
Live Baltimore Home Center Inc

Live baltimores mission is to recruit and retain baltimore city residents.

Community Improvement
11
Baltimore Community Lending Inc

The mission of baltimore community lending is supporting the revitalization and strengthening of underserved communities in the greater baltimore region through innovative financial solutions and collaborative resources designed to promote…

Community Improvement
12
Emerging Technology Centers Inc

To foster a transformative community of tech-savvy, innovative, entrepenurial people looking for creative collaboration to accelerate their growth potential and make powerful economic impact on the City of Baltimore and beyond.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Make Space. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Education SupportLabor Unions and Worker Org…Behavioral Health and Famil…Johns Hopkins Health SystemLegal Services & AdvocacyBaltimore Economic Developm…Social Clubs & Member Organ…Arts & Culture OrganizationsYouth Development & Support…Senior Affordable HousingHealthcare Access & AdvocacyCommunity Arts EducationHistorical Preservation Mus…Civil Rights and Social Equ…Baltimore Charter SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Professional Performing ArtsFaith-Based Community Servi…Community Health and Behavi…Homeless Services & HousingJewish Community Philanthro…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 19 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%19%5–10yr14%28%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr25%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr14%13%5–10yr14%32%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr25%5%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%2/369
the rest of the field
14%
730/5,167

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

155 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. 155 of the 384 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
149/155
Grantees still filing
94/155
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUBGRANT — $13,486,698 · OtherSUBGRANTUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $1,522,027 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK+118 more — $3,362,109 · Other+118 moreCIVIC WORKS INC — $3,012,027 · EducationCIVIC WORKS IN…+10 more — $458,587 · Education+10 moreBroadway East CDC — $661,562 · Community ImprovementBroadway …PARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC — $645,753 · Community ImprovementPARK HEIG…WESTPORT COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $291,041 · Community ImprovementWESTPORT …FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $145,391 · Community ImprovementFUSION PA…+16 more — $670,495 · Community Improvement+16 moreBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — $1,299,928 · Human ServicesBon Secou…LAZARUS RITE — $414,478 · Human ServicesLAZARUS R…CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesLETS THRIVE BALTIMORE — $74,947 · Human Services+10 more — $351,006 · Human Services+10 moreABORTION FUND OF MARYLAND INC — $130,562 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $103,550 · HealthTuerk House Inc — $62,971 · HealthINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC — $61,400 · HealthMaryland Community Health Initiatives — $50,000 · HealthHUMANIM INC — $50,000 · HealthULMAN FOUNDATION INC — $45,310 · HealthMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC — $25,000 · HealthCHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC — $25,000 · HealthItineris Foundation Inc — $20,661 · HealthOPEN WORKS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYMAN THEATRE INC — $32,746 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ART PLACE INC — $29,198 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $27,000 · Arts & CultureBIT COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLE MONDO — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE NOMADS LTD — $24,916 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC — $24,711 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $18,355 · Arts & CultureBMORE EMPOWERED INC — $70,400 · Youth DevelopmentPASS IT ON INC — $68,475 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentI AM MENTALITY INC — $38,250 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INCORPORATED — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentNatural Born Champions Inc — $22,500 · Youth Development
Other$18,370,834Education$3,470,614Community Improvement$2,414,242Human Services$2,240,359Health$574,454Arts & Culture$571,926Youth Development$449,625

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCIVIC WORKS INC — $3,012,027 over 3y, 12% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — $1,299,928 over 3y, 11% of budgetBroadway East CDC — $661,562 over 2y, 42% of budgetPARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC — $645,753 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetWESTPORT COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $291,041 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $145,391 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetABORTION FUND OF MARYLAND INC — $130,562 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK — $111,211 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $103,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN WORKS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLETS THRIVE BALTIMORE — $74,947 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBMORE EMPOWERED INC — $70,400 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTuerk House Inc — $62,971 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnity Properties Inc — $61,730 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC — $61,400 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC — $59,878 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST PARTNERSHIP INC — $52,898 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BALTIMORE INC — $52,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC — $51,500 over 1y, 46% of budgetBALTIMORE MONTESSORI INC — $51,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBaltimore International Academy Inc — $50,757 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBELAIR-EDISON NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $50,118 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOHR CHADASH CONGREGATION INC DBA OHR CHADASH ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIMENTOR INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNPOWER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBALTIMORE MEDICAL SYSTEM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland Community Health Initiatives — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHUMANIM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER BALTIMORE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNEXUS-WOODBOURNE FAMILY HEALING — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BRANCH INC — $49,642 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

The Abell Foundation …Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…Fund for Educational …France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Morris Goldseker …The Harry and Jeanett…Family League of Balt…Lockhart Vaughan Foun…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Bunting Family Fo…
The Abell Foundation IncMD117.9× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family 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 Baltimore Civic Fund 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 · 190%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Druid Heights Community Development Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • Upton Planning Committee Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Pass It On Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Fells Point Main Street Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
  • Midtown Community Fund Inc — 73% of income from government
  • International Social Service United States of America Branch Inc — 72% of income from government
  • Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Hamilton-Lauraville Main Street Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Southwest Partnership Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Federal Hill Main Street Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
  • Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Baltimore Bar Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 16% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Design Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Park Heights Renaissance Inc — 10% of income from government
  • The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Baltimore Medical System Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
  • 4MyCity Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely 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.

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 384 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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