How much did BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 299 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k47 grants · $329k
$10k–50k208 grants · $4.4M
$50k–250k40 grants · $2.8M
$250k+4 grants · $11M

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants

SUBGRANT$8,988,925
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$798,406
THE LAZARUS RITE INC$414,478
BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS$338,850
CIVIC WORKS$231,087
PARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE$169,235
BROADWAY EAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$167,466
GRANTS LES THAN 5000$118,236
MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK$111,211
CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND$100,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC$91,036
WESTPORT COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOP$80,377
BALTIMORE ABORTION FUND$77,012
MARYLAND BAY CONSTRUCTION LLC$72,768
INTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC$61,400

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Baltimore Heritage Incorporated

To preserve historic places in Baltimore.

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Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore

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Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

To provide a strong, unified and effective voice for the business community in the functional area of urban affairs and public policy, business services and information, and economic development, thereby promoting the Baltimore Region as…

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Community Development Network of

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

Community Improvement

City of Baltimore Development Corporatio

The city of baltimore development corporation (bdc) is contracted with the city of baltimore to provide economic development services.

Community Improvement

Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp

To empower east baltimore communities with life-enriching programs for youth and older adults.

Community Improvement

Baltimore Corps Inc

To enlist talent to accelerate social innovation in baltimore and advance a citywide agenda for equity and racial justice.

Employment

Emerging Technology Centers Inc

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

Community Improvement

Metropolitan Baltimore Council of

The mission of the metropolititan baltimore council afl-cio unions is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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Baltimore Public Markets Corporation

To promote markets as a base for neighborhood commercial revitalization.

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Baltimore Green Space a Land Trustfor Community-Managed Open Space in

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

Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development

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.

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 field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%1/285

the rest of the field

12%

623/5,251

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

136 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

129/136

Grantees still filing

103/136

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$34,319,530Human Services$1,273,496Community Improvement$992,745Arts & Culture$545,639Education$543,245Health$459,432Youth Development$383,998

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.

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 Foundation IncMD119.3× affinity93 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

34get no government money at all

5rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 9.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272919916 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PATTERSON PARK PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Baltimore Civic Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Baltimore Civic Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

136 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baltimore Civic Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

136 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baltimore Civic Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph