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Charm City Run 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.

$235k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of Charm City Run Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $120k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Athletes Serving Athletes$16,258
Individual grant recipient$15,906
St Vincent de Paul of Baltimore$13,047
Alzheimer's Association$12,500
House of Ruth$11,807
Paul's Place$10,000
The Baltimore Hunger Project$10,000
Bridges Baltimore$10,000
Building STEPS$10,000
Baltimore Educational Scholarship T$10,000
Irvine Nature Center$9,000
Danny's Fund$8,600
Community Foundation of Frederick C$8,130
Pathfinders for Autism$6,353
Running Industry Diversity Coalitio$6,000
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 (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 9%Miriam's Kitchen: $1k → 14%The Baltimore Hunger Project: $10k → 11%The Baltimore Hunger Project: $10k → 11%The Baltimore Hunger Project: $10k → 11%Baltimore Hunger Project: $5k → 11%The Baltimore Hunger Project: $2k → 11%St Vincent de Paul of Baltimore: $13k → 19%St Vincent de Paul of Baltimore: $11k → 19%St Vincent de Paul of Baltimore: $10k → 19%St Vincent de Paul of Baltimore: $9k → 19%Baltimore Safe Haven: $2k → 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
VA
MD
NC
DC

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$546k · 31 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
22

Total granted

$546k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+31%

Still filing today

61%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • AS
    ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +44%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $43k · revenue +12%
  • BH
    BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHOP Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +18%
  • RM
    REBUILD METRO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +308%

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
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
2
Baltimore Tree Trust Inc

To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.

Environment
3
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
4
Baltimore Green Space

Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.

Environment
5
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment
6
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc

To raise and manage funds and to provide financial support to the university of baltimore. the foundation provides leadership, guidance, and support to the university's administration in advancing the mission and vision of the university.

Education
7
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
8
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

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9
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

Arts & Culture
10
The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors Inc

The greater baltimore board of realtors, inc. is an advocate for the business and professional interests of its members, the practice of high ethical standards in the transfer of real property, and preserving private property rights.

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11
Baltimore Montessori Inc

To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.

Education
12
Baltimore Area Health Education Center

To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amy Schuerholz Metz Charitable Trust. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr11%39%35–55yr17%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%41%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr11%38%35–55yr17%4%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
14%
3,063/22,679

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

48 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. 48 of the 78 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
29/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $100,038 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDanny's Fund — $50,026 · OtherDanny's FundHouse of Ruth — $31,568 · OtherHouse of RuthCHOP Foundation — $30,000 · OtherCHOP FoundationTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $28,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCIndividual grant recipient — $17,000 · Other+44 more — $202,287 · Other+44 moreST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC — $43,075 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE…BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC — $37,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HUN…BACK ON MY FEET — $9,269 · Human ServicesBACK ON MY FE…+2 more — $3,250 · Human ServicesATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES — $49,063 · Recreation & SportsATHLETES …RUNNING INDUSTRY DIVERSITY COALITION — $7,000 · Recreation & SportsRUNNING I…GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $5,500 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS ON …+1 more — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $25,000 · EducationBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 · EducationKIPP BALTIMORE INC — $7,500 · EducationTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $2,263 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $2,000 · EducationTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND — $2,000 · Education+2 more — $2,500 · EducationIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $22,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC — $3,045 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC — $2,750 · EnvironmentFriends of Patterson Park Inc — $1,900 · Environment+2 more — $1,360 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $17,800 · PhilanthropyAMY SCHUERHOLZ METZ CHARITABLE TRUST — $8,000 · PhilanthropyMONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $1,780 · PhilanthropyPAUL'S PLACE INC — $24,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $2,800 · Food & Nutrition
Other$458,919Human Services$92,594Recreation & Sports$63,563Education$51,263Environment$31,055Philanthropy$27,580Food & Nutrition$26,800

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES — $49,063 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC — $43,075 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC — $37,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $22,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $17,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC — $11,595 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBuilding Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET — $9,269 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMY SCHUERHOLZ METZ CHARITABLE TRUST — $8,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetTALBOT HUMANE CO — $7,999 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP BALTIMORE INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUNNING INDUSTRY DIVERSITY COALITION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPATHFINDERS FOR AUTISM — $6,353 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $6,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $5,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTASTE WISE KIDS INC — $5,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetREBUILD METRO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES TO HOUSING STABILITY INC — $4,868 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC — $3,045 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC — $2,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHearts Place Services Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $2,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Safe Haven Corp — $2,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER — $2,059 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ROAD RUNNERS CLUB — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Patterson Park Inc — $1,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $1,780 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWashington and Lee University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANIM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc — $1,442 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES BALTIMORE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSATEAGUE COASTAL TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…The United Way of Cen…France-Merrick Founda…Brown Advisory Charit…The Marion I & Henry …T Rowe Price Program …The Harry and Jeanett…Associated Jewish Cha…Clayton Baker TrustT Rowe Price Foundati…The Abell Foundation …The Kahlert Foundatio…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD40× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Clayton Baker Trust · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Kahlert 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 Charm City Run 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 · 170%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Land Preservation Trust Inc — 64% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
  • Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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