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Baxter Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$272k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Human Services$309kEducation$280kHousing & Shelter$60kYouth Development$58kHealth$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kAnimals$28kArts & Culture$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$100,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$45,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION$30,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
BAAM$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TALBOT MENTORS$10,000
CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE C$10,000
TALBOT HOSPICE$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY SALIBURY$5,000
HARRIETTS HOUSE$5,000
TALBOT HUMANE$2,500
FORSYTH HUMANE SOCIETY$1,268
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES$1,000
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 (FY20–24, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $67k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $58k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $45k → 19%TALBOT HOSPICE: $10k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $40k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $45k → 19%TALBOT HOSPICE: $10k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE: $10k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE: $10k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE: $10k → 10%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
PA
MD
DE
NC
DC
HI
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$648k · 13 repeat orgs$273k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$648k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+34%

Still filing today

69%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsReligionOther

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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $254k · revenue +7%
  • CM
    CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +98%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • WC
    WICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
2
CalvertHealth Medical Center Inc

Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…

Health
3
Talbot Interfaith Shelter Inc

Talbot interfaith shelter is dedicated to ending homelessness on maryland's mid-shore by providing shelter, stability, support and a path to success for families and individuals in need.

Housing & Shelter
4
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
5
Maryland Patient Safety Center Inc

To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.

Health
6
Samaritan House Inc

Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Humane Society of Harford County Inc

The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.

Animals
8
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
9
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
10
The Humane Society of Baltimore County Inc

Provide a temporary home, safe refuge and care for homeless animals. work aggressively to place each animal in a loving, permanent home. strive to end the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals by offering affordable spay, neuter and…

Animals
11
Western Md Health Sys Foundation

To coordinate with UPMC Western Maryland to enhance health care in the service area and also operate for the charitable and educational purposes of supporting UPMC Western Maryland.

Health
12
Coastal Hospice

Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harriets House. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr18%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr14%59%35–55yr18%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
3,755/29,487

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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDUMES FOUNDATION — $61,000 · OtherUMES FOUNDATIONAMERICAN RED CROSS — $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSWICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION — $25,000 · OtherWICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $21,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $21,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $19,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $17,500 · Other+21 more — $81,996 · Other+21 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $254,020 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MAR…TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC+3 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC — $30,000 · EducationCHESAPEAKE…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…TALBOT MENTORSINC — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARRIETS HOUSE — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterTALBOT HUMANE CO — $23,500 · AnimalsForsyth Humane Society — $1,268 · AnimalsSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 · Religion
Other$376,496Human Services$314,020Education$85,000Youth Development$55,000Housing & Shelter$55,000Animals$24,768Religion$10,000

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 budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $254,020 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTALBOT MENTORSINC — $55,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetHARRIETS HOUSE — $55,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT HUMANE CO — $23,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENNARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA INC — $3,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForsyth Humane Society — $1,268 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CITY MD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC
  • Who funds HARRIETS HOUSE
  • Who funds TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TALBOT HUMANE CO
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds KENNARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA INC
  • Who funds HELP AND OUTREACH POINT OF ENTRY INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Forsyth Humane Society
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds OCEAN CITY MD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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.

Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Dock Street Foundation · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Baxter Family Charitable Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Avalon Foundation Inc6% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Baxter Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Baxter Family Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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