· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -27% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
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.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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.
An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
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…
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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