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Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
157
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$387k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$2.1MHealth$1.8MEnvironment$1.3MYouth Development$994kArts & Culture$952kHuman Services$674kPhilanthropy$655kCommunity Improvement$543kOther$0
02FY2025 · 157 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k96 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $710k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$2,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$387,250
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$262,500
University of Maryland Medicine$175,000
Individual grant recipient$140,000
Individual grant recipient$120,000
Living Classrooms Foundation$100,750
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$100,750
GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA$100,000
Smithsonians National Zoological Park$100,000
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$90,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$83,333
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$80,000
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 (FY20–25, $437k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%John Jay College Foundation Inc: $13k → 17%Methodist Home for Children: $5k → 8%Methodist Home for Children: $5k → 8%Families Forward Charlotte: $3k → 10%READYKIDS: $3k → 8%Methodist Home for Children: $5k → 8%Methodist Home for Children: $3k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $25k → 8%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%Bon Secours Community Works: $3k → 19%Food for Others: $3k → 6%Sunflower of Peace: $3k → 8%South Boston Neighborhood House: $3k → 16%Food for Others: $3k → 6%Health Equity International: $10k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $5k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $5k → 8%Potomac Community Resources Inc: $3k → 8%VOLO KIDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%Fair Chance: $10k → 8%VOLO KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Fight for Children Inc: $12k → 14%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $4k → 16%VOLO KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 19%Child First Authority: $5k → 19%Fight for Children Inc: $9k → 14%The Arc of the US: $5k → 14%BOARD OF CHILD CARE: $3k → 19%The Arc of the US: $3k → 14%TURNAROUND INC: $3k → 11%The Arc of the US: $3k → 14%Horizon Day Camp: $5k → 19%Maryland Family Network: $3k → 19%The Esperanza Center: $4k → 19%Franciscan Center of Baltimore: $3k → 19%Baltimore Safe Haven: $3k → 19%Center for Urban Families: $11k → 19%Center for Urban Families: $10k → 19%Chris Wilson Foundation: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $80k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $30k → 19%Ronald McDonald House: $21k → 19%Ronald McDonald House: $20k → 19%Catholic Charities of Baltimore: $4k → 19%Catholic Charities of Baltimore: $3k → 19%Catholic Charities of Baltimore: $3k → 19%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

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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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 288 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

288 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2025, 203 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

288
500

Total granted

$9.7M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $805k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $513k · revenue +42%
  • GB
    GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +10%
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $308k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • UF
    UMMS FOUNDATIONSHOCK TRAUMA CELEB
    one grant, 2024 · $125k
  • ST
    SHOCK TRAUMA AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND M
    one grant, 2024 · $125k

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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6
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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7
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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8
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

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,…

Health
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr16%7%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%4/549
the rest of the field
14%
5,901/41,300

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

518 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. 518 of the 875 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
100
Early backer (in before they grew)
509/518
Grantees still filing
344/518
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,550,019 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA — $305,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $250,000 · Other+130 more — $4,788,951 · Other+130 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $512,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKIN…BARD COLLEGE — $155,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $151,000 · EducationWASHINGTON C…Ron Brown Scholar Fund — $80,200 · EducationRon Brown Sc…The Ingenuity Project Inc — $58,700 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP — $55,000 · Education+13 more — $297,150 · Education+13 moreGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $400,000 · HealthGREATER B…Mercy Medical Center — $300,000 · HealthMercy Med…BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $60,078 · HealthBATH COMM…Mercy Health Foundation — $45,000 · HealthNAMI METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE INC — $32,500 · Health+7 more — $114,650 · Health+7 moreROCA INC — $205,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $166,767 · Youth DevelopmentB-360 Baltimore Inc — $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentI AM MENTALITY INC — $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BE ORG INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $25,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $62,700 · Youth DevelopmentTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $307,500 · PhilanthropyNATURE SACRED — $114,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $36,300 · PhilanthropyWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC — $206,936 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementDIVINC — $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $119,100 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $76,500 · Arts & CultureMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $48,500 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $34,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Action — $17,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $42,850 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,143,970Education$1,309,550Health$952,228Youth Development$721,967Philanthropy$582,800Community Improvement$451,936Arts & Culture$437,950

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $512,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $307,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Medical Center — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC — $206,936 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetROCA INC — $205,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $166,767 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetB-360 Baltimore Inc — $160,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $155,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $151,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $129,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $126,585 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC — $125,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $123,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $119,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE SACRED — $114,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY — $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund — $80,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $76,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC — $64,250 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $60,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $60,078 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc — $58,700 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWARRIOR REUNION FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP — $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetI AM MENTALITY INC — $52,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BE ORG INC — $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDIVINC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $48,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Health Foundation — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $44,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFrank J Battaglia Signal 13 Foundation Inc — $43,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $41,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUS LACROSSE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $34,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds B-360 Baltimore Inc ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURE SACRED ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ron Brown Scholar Fund ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…The Abell Foundation …T Rowe Price Foundati…The United Way of Cen…The Bunting Family Fo…The John J Leidy Foun…Venable Foundation IncThe Harry and Jeanett…The Marion I & Henry …The Morris Goldseker …Associated Jewish Cha…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD104.4× affinity89 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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 Brown Advisory Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
  • Fells Point Main Street Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Pride of Baltimore Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Primary Source Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
  • International Youth Foundation — 17% of income from government
  • Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
  • B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Chase Brexton Health Services Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Washington College — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Mercy Medical Center — 0% of income from government
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc 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 875 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home