· Private foundation
Bic Educational Foundation Inc
TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE SUPPORT TO STUDENTS PURSURING CAREERS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY BY PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO ELIGIBLE STUDENTS.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $542k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $202,941 |
| U EMPOWER OF MARYLAND | $100,000 |
| HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $68,781 |
| FRIENDS OF GREAT KIDS FARM | $65,000 |
| MERGENTHALER VO-TECH HIGH SCHOOL | $55,175 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| FOREST PARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $36,130 |
| EDMONDSON WESTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL | $16,649 |
| TASTEWISE KIDS INC | $15,000 |
| THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| CARVER CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY | $9,790 |
| FRANCISCAN CENTER | $7,745 |
| VISIT BALTIMORE EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $300 |
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 (FY24–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Bic Educational Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN4× · 2022–2025 · $393k · revenue +138% · 51% of their budget
- UOUEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC4× · 2022–2025 · $235k · revenue +23%
- TWTASTE WISE KIDS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $58k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- RARESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $757
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.
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
Real Food for Kids' mission is to change eating behaviors and improve health outcomes for children and families in the Greater Washington Region through sustainable access to real whole foods, impactful nutrition education, and local…
Manna food center, inc strives to end hunger in our community through education, advocacy, and food distribution to individuals and partner agencies. manna's guiding principles are to be service-driven, community- centered and…
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
To increase access to locally grown, highly nutritious food for all frederick, maryland residents. we aim to cultivate new markets for local farmers while enhancing awareness and understanding of the importance of food, nutrition, and…
The bit's (formerly known as italian cultural center) mission is to support an equitable prosperous baltimore building community health and wealth for citizens of the world who call baltimore home. always inspired by our italian culture,…
An End to Ignorance, Inc. feeds vulnerable people across Baltimore City, by rescuing good food that would ordinarily be thrown away, and then supplementing it with fresh meat and non-perishable goods. This work brings our most vulnerable…
Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.
The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
To operate a campus housing site that creates a synergistic group of food-related businesses, services, and programs for a social work enterprise training facility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uempower of Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Culinary Institute of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 FRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN ↗
- Who funds UEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TASTE WISE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISIT BALTIMORE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION 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: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · 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 Bic Educational 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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% 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.
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