· Private foundation
Cape Foundation Inc
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 $10k14 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| SULTANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HOMELAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERIA | $1,000 |
| GUNPOWER RIVERKEEPER | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL CARE SHELTER FOR KENT CO | $500 |
| CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $500 |
| SHORE RIVERS | $500 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND | $500 |
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 (FY19–20, $10k) 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Cape 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. Read by recipient address, 53% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 42% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
Williams College5× · 2017–2024 · $382k · revenue +87%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $178k · revenue +25%- BCBALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- WCWILLIAMS COLLEGE HYDE TEACHINGone grant, 2023 · $100k
- KAKENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -16%
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +39%
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.
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The waldorf school of baltimore educates and inspires children to think, act, and feel with depth, imagination, and purpose.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 45 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 Williams College ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DRINK AT THE WELL INC ↗
- Who funds KENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GUNPOWDER RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · Lynn W and Timothy W Peters Family Foundation · Dock Street Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Middendorf Foundation 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 Cape 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.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Kent Attainable Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.
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