· Public charity
Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust
The BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the baltimore area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $474k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $194k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS | $70,806 |
| BRYN MAWR SCHOOL | $67,399 |
| PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE | $56,088 |
| FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE | $49,287 |
| THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND | $48,219 |
| MCDONOGH SCHOOL | $45,517 |
| ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL | $44,264 |
| GILMAN SCHOOL | $44,103 |
| MARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $39,419 |
| GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL | $33,115 |
| JEMICY SCHOOL | $30,405 |
| CALVERT SCHOOL | $28,699 |
| SEVERN SCHOOL | $25,486 |
| CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL | $24,985 |
| KEY SCHOOL | $21,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TJTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $441k · revenue +111%
- GSGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $417k · revenue +45%
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- AIAFS-USA INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -27%
- NANEUROBEHAVIORAL ASSOCIATESone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
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Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
Mclean school's small classes and abilities model prepare bright students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, including those with dyslexia, anxiety, and attention issues, for college success.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Park School of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Boys' Latin School of Maryland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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
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 THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE KEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan Foundation Inc · Arbor Dog Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Campbell 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 organization Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust 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.
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 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.
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