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Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$100,750
Living Classrooms Foundation$100,750
Smithsonians National Zoological Park$100,000
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE$100,000
GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA$100,000
Individual grant recipient$90,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$83,333
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$80,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
WA
MT
ND
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
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

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

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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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

519 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 519 of the 875 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
100
Early backer (in before they grew)
511/519
Grantees still filing
349/519
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+8 more: $124,650 · Health+8 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+5 more: $56,300 · PhilanthropyWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC: $206,936 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementDIVINC: $50,000 · Community 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+2 more: $22,850 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,143,970Education$1,309,550Health$962,228Youth Development$721,967Philanthropy$602,800Community Improvement$441,936Arts & Culture$417,950

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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 budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIVINC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BE ORG INC: $50,000 over 2y, 22% 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 budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetUS LACROSSE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $34,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 875 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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