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Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundation at a glance

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Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$555k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.7MCommunity Improvement$995kHuman Services$875kYouth Development$160kFood & Nutrition$115kArts & Culture$80kPhilanthropy$36kEducation$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $360k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$75,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE$75,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$60,000
ST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER$50,000
BLACK WOMEN BUILD BALTIMORE$50,000
BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS$50,000
COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC$40,000
NEXT ONE UP$40,000
REBUILD METRO$30,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$30,000
LIVE BALTIMORE$25,000
HEALTHY NEIGHBOHOODS- SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$25,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $875k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $100k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $100k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $100k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $100k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $90k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $75k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $60k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $50k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $60k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $40k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 19 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$3.9M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SA
    ST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $840k · revenue +28%
  • BS
    Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +55%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • HN
    HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -32%
  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • JB
    JUBILEE BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

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2
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
3
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
4
Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc

Nonprofit community based organization that works to foster an enviornment where residents, business owners,and stateholders feel confident to invest their time,energy,and money. we are a healthy neighborhoods and baltimore main streets…

Housing & Shelter
5
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
6
Maryland Inclusive Housing Corporation

Maryland inclusive housing corporation's (mih) mission is to help people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (idd) successfully access and maintain inclusive, affordable, and accessible housing of their choice by…

Housing & Shelter
7
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…

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8
Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc

Neighborhood housing services of baltimore (nhs) stimulates, protects and preserves homeownership and financial well-being to strengthen communities.

Community Improvement
9
Rebuilding Together Baltimore Inc

Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.

Housing & Shelter
10
Ahc Inc

Founded in 1975, ahc develops affordable housing and helps communities thrive in the northern virginia, washington dc and the baltimore region. we provide a wide array of educational programs and social services in our community centers to…

Housing & Shelter
11
Hch Real Estate Company Inc

Develops affordable and supportive multifamily rental housing in baltimore. our projects are designed to be community-centered, environmentally sustainable and deeply affordable.

Housing & Shelter
12
The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors Inc

The greater baltimore board of realtors, inc. is an advocate for the business and professional interests of its members, the practice of high ethical standards in the transfer of real property, and preserving private property rights.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Live Baltimore Home Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC: $840,000 · Housing & ShelterST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $505,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INCBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $140,000 · Housing & ShelterBlack Women Build - Baltimore IncCOMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC: $70,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $675,000 · Human ServicesBon Secours Baltimore Co…ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHAR…HEALTHY NEIGHBOHOODS- SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $250,000 · OtherHEALTHY NEIGHBOHOO…THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $115,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD …HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $85,000 · OtherHEALTH CARE FOR TH…BALT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - CIVIC LEADERSHIP: $60,000 · OtherBALT COMMUNITY FOU…DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC: $50,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN PARTNERSH…LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $45,000 · OtherLATINO ECONOMIC DE…Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…+3 more: $25,893 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $375,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHEAST C…THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED …LIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementHEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementREBUILD METRO INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $25,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC: $10,000 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Health
Housing & Shelter$1,575,000Human Services$875,000Other$670,893Philanthropy$405,000Community Improvement$285,000Youth Development$160,000Education$35,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC: $840,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $675,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $505,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $375,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC: $125,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE BALTIMORE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $5,893 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Harry and Jeanett…The Abell Foundation …Baltimore Community F…Annie E Casey Foundat…Associated Jewish Cha…The Bunting Family Fo…T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…The Hackerman Foundat…The Morris Goldseker …Baltimore Civic Fund …France-Merrick Founda…
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation IncMD27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Bunting Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Jubilee Baltimore Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Healthy Neighborhoods Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Producers Club of Md Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: 3% 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
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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