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Batza Family Foundation Inc

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.

$814k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$156k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$725kPhilanthropy$157kHuman Services$151kHealth$148kYouth Development$130kAnimals$100kArts & Culture$76kEnvironment$44kHousing & Shelter$21kOther$783k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $586k
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$155,500
KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE$125,250
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$100,000
THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL$55,000
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE$50,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$42,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE$37,000
BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN$35,000
INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES$30,000
CARMELITE SISTERS OF BALTIMORE$25,000
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL$12,500
DILWORTH CENTER$10,000
THE CAVANAUGH HOUSE INC$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER INC: $3k → 10%MID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER INC: $500 → 10%SANTA CLAUS ANONYMOUS: $150 → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 11%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $5k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $100k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 33 repeat orgs$814k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
53

Total granted

$1.5M
$547k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+8%

Still filing today

70%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $196k · revenue +44%
  • AC
    ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +21%
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $135k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL AQUARIUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +191%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
2
Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education
3
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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4
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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5
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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6
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
7
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
9
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

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…

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12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health

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 Pros Fore Clothes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,777

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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 92 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
41/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC — $142,150 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA — $80,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USANOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $72,028 · OtherNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOLCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $57,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLTHE LOYOLA SCHOOL INC — $51,000 · OtherTHE LOYOLA SCHOOL INCCARMELITE SISTERS OF BALTIMORE — $50,000 · OtherCARMELITE SISTERS OF BALTIMORECHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $50,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUSTJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE — $50,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE — $37,000 · OtherBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 · OtherBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $41,750 · Other+42 more — $243,120 · Other+42 moreCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $195,500 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYGOUCHER COLLEGE — $110,000 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGEFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN — $81,300 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADER…GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $70,000 · EducationGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INCWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $65,500 · EducationWASHINGTON COLLEGETHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $55,000 · EducationTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC — $40,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND…GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC — $25,000 · Education+8 more — $33,100 · EducationTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $135,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $140,000 · Human Services+4 more — $10,650 · Human ServicesMercy Health Foundation — $100,000 · HealthDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $30,000 · HealthFELLOWSHIP RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $5,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Health+4 more — $7,500 · HealthNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $100,000 · Animals
Other$924,048Education$725,400Philanthropy$156,500Human Services$150,650Health$147,500Youth Development$130,000Animals$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $195,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMercy Health Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN — $81,300 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $65,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $41,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAVANAGH HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAsylee Women Enterprise Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — $7,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUS LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCISCAN CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINE CENTER INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHigh Zero Foundation Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetStella Maris Inc — $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC — $2,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROS FORE CLOTHES FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTALBOT MENTORSINC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…The Marion I & Henry …Annie E Casey Foundat…Brown Advisory Charit…Mary Catherine Buntin…France-Merrick Founda…Linehan Family Founda…Associated Jewish Cha…Edward St John Founda…The Abell Foundation …
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD53× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Linehan Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Abell 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 Batza Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
  • Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Mid Shore Community Mediation Center Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
  • The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Washington College — 0% of income from government
  • Goucher College — 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Batza Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Batza Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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