· Community foundation
Baltimore Community Foundation Inc
The mission of baltimore community foundation is to inspire donors to achieve their charitable goals from generation to generation and to improve the quality of life in the baltimore region through grantmaking, enlightened civic leadership and strategic investments.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 604 grants below total $29,333,567 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,170,903 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,837,336 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k125 grants · $863k
- $10k–50k353 grants · $7.3M
- $50k–250k109 grants · $9.8M
- $250k+17 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC | $4,458,913 |
| ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $1,144,500 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $938,455 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $512,087 |
| SAINT BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC | $452,024 |
| COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK | $389,750 |
| CAPITAL REGION MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $360,000 |
| YORK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $350,250 |
| MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC | $348,707 |
| CAPITAL CARING HEALTH | $284,000 |
| GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC | $274,600 |
| FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC | $267,492 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $267,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $260,649 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $16.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
690 repeat relationships — 430 still active in FY2024, 260 since wound down; 129 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +68%
- CCCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC2× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +44% · 47% of their budget
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +64%
Funded once
- MSMARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $825k
- PCPENDLETON COUNTYBOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $750k
- PAPIKESVILLE ARMORY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
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…
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Live baltimores mission is to recruit and retain baltimore city residents.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is Homebound. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1085 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1085 of the 1,340 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UPSURGE BALTIMORE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUILDING 21 ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
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 Community 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.
- Upton Planning Committee Inc — 100% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Reservoir Hill Improvement Council Inc — 68% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Land Preservation Trust Inc — 64% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Pikesville Armory Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Wbc Community Development Corporation — 36% of income from government
- Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Baltimore Community Lending Inc — 28% of income from government
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council — 25% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County Inc — 21% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% 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
- Healthy Neighborhoods Inc — 16% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Casa 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
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Community Assistance Network Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Northwest Hospital Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Arc Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
- Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
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.