· Community foundation
Bfg Community Foundation Inc
The mission of the corporation is to effect a positive and determined impact in our local community in the areas of sheltering the homeless, feeding and clothing families, supporting the educational needs of our community youth and supporting those who protect our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $10,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,975 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,475 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES | $5,500 |
| THE SHEPHERD'S STAFF | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SASafe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +454%
- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +28%
- FIFOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA FRESH START FURNISHINGS2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- TFTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +45%
- LGLIB'S GRILLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAone grant, 2020 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.
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…
Shared support maryland, inc. assists people in developing and maintaining the self-direction of their services and support, fosters and grows community connections and relationships, and values the ambitions and goals of the people we…
To measurably improve the health, safety, and well-being of Baltimore's children, youth, and families.
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.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
To provide free mediation services in the baltimore metropolitan area for the purposes of reducing interpersonal and community violence. the program also provides community education and conflict resolution training.
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Hunger Project Llc and the most unlike its peers is The Agoge Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AGOGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mentoring Mentors Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA FRESH START FURNISHINGS ↗
- Who funds Red Devils Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS STAFF INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SURVIVOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
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.
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 · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 organization Bfg Community 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.
- Family Survivor Network — 46% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
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.