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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.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Youth Development$205kCrime & Legal$100kEducation$31kHuman Services$22kHealth$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kReligion$12kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $10,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,975 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,475 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$873k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES$5,500
THE SHEPHERD'S STAFF$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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SHEPHERD'S STAFF: $6k → 6%FOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES: $6k → 7%SAFE-ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $20k → 19%THE SHEPHERD'S STAFF: $5k → 6%FOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES: $6k → 7%SAFE-ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $20k → 19%SAFE-ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $20k → 19%SAFE-ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $20k → 19%SAFE-ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $20k → 19%SAFE-ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $18k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $6k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $8k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $8k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$364k · 10 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$364k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+45%

Still filing today

80%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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
    Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +454%
  • AC
    ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • FI
    FOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA FRESH START FURNISHINGS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • LG
    LIB'S GRILL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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 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
2
Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc

Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.

Human Services
3
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
4
Shared Support Maryland Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Safe and Sound Baltimore's Campaign for our Children Inc

To measurably improve the health, safety, and well-being of Baltimore's children, youth, and families.

—
6
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
7
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

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.

International
8
Community Mediation Program Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Moveable Feast Inc

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…

—
10
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

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…

Education
11
Maryland New Directions Inc

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.

Health
12
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County Maryland Inc

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Hunger Project Llc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $117,500 · Human ServicesSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INCASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $24,900 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INCFOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA FRESH START FURNISHINGS: $11,000 · Human ServicesFOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA FRESH START …SHEPHERDS STAFF INC: $10,750 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS STAFF INC+1 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesSafe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc: $100,000 · Crime & LegalSafe and Sound A Sandy Hook…TOUCHING YOUNG LIVES: $17,500 · OtherTOUCHING YOUNG L…ASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES INC: $11,500 · OtherASSISTANCE CENTE…LIB'S GRILL: $9,550 · OtherLIB'S GRILLPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $5,750 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHU…BROOKSIDE MARKET: $5,400 · OtherBROOKSIDE MARKETCHARCOAL GRILL: $5,350 · OtherCHARCOAL GRILLSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $5,000 · OtherSTRONG CITY BALT…THE AGOGE PROJECT: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AGOGE PROJEC…Mentoring Mentors Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMentoring Mentor…Red Devils Inc: $10,750 · HealthFAMILY SURVIVOR NETWORK: $5,500 · HealthTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$169,650Crime & Legal$100,000Other$60,050Youth Development$60,000Health$16,250Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $117,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetSafe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE AGOGE PROJECT: $35,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetMentoring Mentors Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $24,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUND IN FAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA FRESH START FURNISHINGS: $11,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSHEPHERDS STAFF INC: $10,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRed Devils Inc: $10,750 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY SURVIVOR NETWORK: $5,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE 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.

Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…The Marion I & Henry …The Abell Foundation …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover 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 · 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

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 Bfg Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bfg Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Family Survivor Network: 46% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.

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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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