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Chesapeake Orthopedic Research Foundation Inc at a glance

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Chesapeake Orthopedic Research Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$56kEducation$52kHealth$36kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$22,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$51,500
BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$22,500
HOUNDS DUGOUT CLUB CORP$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%HOUNDS DUGOUT CLUB CORP: $1k → 16%AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%MEDSTAR HEALTH: $15k → 6%HAWKS FOR FOOTBALL: $5k → 19%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $52k → 7%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS: $250 → 14%MEDSTAR HEALTH: $9k → 6%MERCY MEDICAL CENTER: $160 → 19%MEDSTAR UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10k → 19%MEDSTAR UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $500 → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS ORTHOPAEDICS: $1k → 19%BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $23k → 19%BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $8k → 19%BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $5k → 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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 3 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$90k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth 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

  • BC
    BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +55%
  • MH
    MEDSTAR HEALTH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $24k · revenue +54%
  • TU
    THE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • HF
    HAWKS FOR FOOTBALL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • AO
    AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +29%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS
    one grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +15%
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.

1
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates 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…

Education
2
University of Maryland Surgical 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
3
University of Maryland Obstetrical Andgynecological 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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4
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
5
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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6
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 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
7
Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc

See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.

Health
8
University of Maryland Orthopaedic 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…

Education
9
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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10
University of Maryland Eye 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 Emergency Medicine 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
12
Washington Hospital Center Corporation

See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, medstar washington hospital center's (mwhc) mission is to deliver exceptional patient-first health care and an exceptional patient experience. mwhc is renowned for handling the region's…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Union Memorial Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Hounds Dugout Club Corp. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $55,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INCBowdoin College: $51,500 · EducationBowdoin CollegeMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $24,200 · HealthMEDSTAR HEALTH INCTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10,500 · HealthTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL+3 more: $1,510 · HealthHAWKS FOR FOOTBALL: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherHounds Dugout Club Corp: $1,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$55,500Education$51,500Health$36,210Other$6,000Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetBALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $55,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetBowdoin College: $51,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $24,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Medical Center: $160 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Chesapeake Orthopedic Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chesapeake Orthopedic Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Mercy Medical Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Chesapeake Orthopedic Research Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chesapeake Orthopedic Research 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 10 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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