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Blanket Fort 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $835k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $907k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THREAD INC | $300,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATED | $180,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC | $110,000 |
| IMPROVING EDUCATION | $75,000 |
| KIPP BALTIMORE INC | $60,000 |
| HEARTSMILES | $60,000 |
| HOMEWORTHY | $60,000 |
| THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE | $60,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $51,800 |
| THE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM | $50,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| REBUILD METRO INC | $50,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC (JEWTINA Y CO) | $43,000 |
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, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
71 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $730k 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
- KBKIPP BALTIMORE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $570k · revenue +44%
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $419k · revenue +218%- HHomeworthy3× · 2022–2024 · $195k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TPTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $630k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $345k
- KKKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $234k · revenue +98%
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thread Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alice G Gadd and F Frederick Romanow Jr Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
139 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. 139 of the 191 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 THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORES PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPROVING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSMILES INC ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Itineris Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM BIG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE WILL ALL RISE ↗
- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AN END TO IGNORANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Pen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation ↗
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 · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland 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 Blanket Fort 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Central Baltimore Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Co in Station 70 — 36% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 32% of income from government
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association Inc (Eagala) — 20% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% 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.