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· Public charity
BALTIMORE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
To provide volunteer services and financial support to 501(c)3 educational, scientific and religious organizations through grants with emphasis on community, youth and international organiztions.
$235k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants
2
Communities
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of BALTIMORE ROTARY FOUNDATION 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.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
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2022
veteranstraining
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$15,594
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CAMP DUDLEY$15,594
- THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES$8,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc
To ensure those impacted by poverty have the skills & resources to achieve their full potential.
Human Services
2
Business Volunteers Maryland Inc
Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.
Community Improvement
3
First Maryland Disability Trust Inc
Providing trust services to individuals with disabilities of all ages throughout maryland.
Human Services
4
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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5
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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6
The Boys and Girls Clubs
Boys & girls clubs of metropolitan baltimore (bgcmb) provides youth development programs and services for youth ages 6 to 18 during the critical out-of-school time hours. our nine club locations are community-based and led by paid,…
Youth Development
7
Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc
Committed to anti-racist practices and to black leadership.
Human Services
8
Volunteer Legal Advocates
To provide high-quality, free legal services to vulnerable low-income individuals in dc and md.
Housing & Shelter
9
Maryland Independent College & University
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
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10
Blue Water Baltimore
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor.
Environment
11
Baltimore Area Health Education Center
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings see sched o
Health
12
Montgomery County Community Foundation
Creating legacies to fulfill philanthropic dreams through grants to nonprofits and scholarships
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The League for People With Disabilities and the most unlike its peers is Rotary International Rotary Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$67,475Human Services$34,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Youth Development$8,000
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.
The United Way of Central Maryland IncMD20.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 ROTARY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely 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: BALTIMORE TOOL BANK.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +69% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 454507134 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 BALTIMORE TOOL BANK, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Rotary Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Baltimore Rotary Foundation 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines