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Civic Works Inc

Strengthening baltimore's communities through education, skills development and community service.

$467k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.1MHealth$850kHuman Services$579kHousing & Shelter$497kEducation$276kCommunity Improvement$261kCivil Rights$50kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $203k
$27,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUTCAST FOOD NETWORK$52,500
PARITY BALTIMORE INC$50,550
CASA INC$50,000
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH CENTER$50,000
PLEASANT HOUSING$48,558
CLAY POTS$48,332
NEW VISION HOUSE OF HOPE INC$27,500
MEALS ON WHEELS$27,500
MARYLAND PHYSICIANS CARE$27,436
BALTIMORE HEALTHY START INC$25,000
DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE$25,000
MEN AND FAMILIES CENTER$24,984
SOAP RECOVERY SUPPORT & MORE$24,661
MOVEABLE FEAST INC$10,000
LAMB INC$5,022
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, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $25k → 19%DANIEL CARL TORSCH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 19%MUSLIM SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 11%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $8k → 19%ST MARY'S OUTREACH CENTER: $11k → 19%MEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $25k → 19%MEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $11k → 19%BALTIMORE CONNECT INC: $10k → 19%LAMB INC: $18k → 19%GREENMOUNT SENIOR CENTER INC: $9k → 19%LAMB INC: $5k → 19%NO ONE LEFT UNHELPED INC: $7k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $6k → 19%GREATER BALTIMORE URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE URBAN LEAGUE: $9k → 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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 26 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
59

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $558k · revenue +108%
  • BN
    BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP
    3× · 2017–2021 · $453k · revenue +52%
  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $364k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • KC
    KESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $183k · revenue 0%
  • GM
    GRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $130k · revenue -10%
  • SH
    SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $88k · revenue +35%

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
Somebody Cares Baltimore Inc

Community based nonprofit organization

Religion
2
Baltimore Unity Hall Inc
Community Improvement
3
Grow Home Inc

Assist community members in capacity building, program development, fiscal sponsorship and organizational development for the general improvement in quality of life plus green space and community organiz.

Arts & Culture
4
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

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5
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
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6
Healthy Neighborhoods Inc

To help baltimore communities forge strong connections among neighbors to market their communities, increase home values and create high standards for property improvement. using its capacity to attract and invest public and private…

Community Improvement
7
Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc

Nonprofit community based organization that works to foster an enviornment where residents, business owners,and stateholders feel confident to invest their time,energy,and money. we are a healthy neighborhoods and baltimore main streets…

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Baltimore Wedding Initiative Inc
—
10
Health Care for the Homeless Inc

Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.

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11
Innovation Works Inc

The corporation will develop sustainable neighborhood economies in depressed areas by: igniting interest in sustainable social enterprise, helping individuals transform challenges into opportunities, creating sustainable social…

Community Improvement
12
Community Housing Associates Inc

Develop and manage affordable housing for low-income individuals and families in baltimore city who are affected by psychiatric disabilities.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charm City Care Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is Liberty Grace of God. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing ProvidersYouth & Family Empowerment …Mental Health & Addiction T…Faith-Based Community Servi…Homeless Services & HousingBaltimore Neighborhood Deve…Fraternity and Sorority Fou…Hospital Systems and Health…Baltimore Independent Schoo…Jewish Community Organizati…Historical Preservation Org…Youth Sports & Recreation P…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr16%24%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr22%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr22%27%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/91
the rest of the field
14%
1,509/11,071

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

73 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. 73 of the 91 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
44/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER INC — $276,408 · OtherKESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER INCSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $57,960 · OtherST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $55,000 · OtherCASA INC — $50,000 · OtherADULLUM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CENTER — $49,951 · OtherMARYLAND PHYSICIANS CARE — $49,936 · OtherSTILLMEADOW EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH — $45,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $67,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPME…CLAY POTS INC — $48,332 · OtherProfessional Development and Research Center International — $50,000 · Other+34 more — $444,753 · Other+34 moreMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $557,943 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF…Outcast Food Network — $184,050 · Food & NutritionOutcast Food Netwo…BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP — $453,372 · Community ImprovementBANNER NEIGHBORHO…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BALTIMORE INC — $126,750 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUS…FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementACTION IN MATURITY INC — $32,500 · Community Improvement+8 more — $88,282 · Community Improvement+8 moreST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC — $363,837 · Housing & ShelterST AMBROSE HOUSIN…REBUILDING TOGETHER BALTIMORE INC — $168,440 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETH…PARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED — $95,550 · Housing & ShelterPARITY BALTIMORE …PLEASANT HOUSING INC — $73,558 · Housing & ShelterPLEASANT HOUSING …+2 more — $33,060 · Housing & ShelterLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC — $363,837 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH…GRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $130,000 · HealthGRACE MEDICAL CEN…SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC — $88,251 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF…GREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC — $71,750 · HealthGREEN & HEALTHY H…ICARRE FOUNDATION INC — $31,400 · Health+4 more — $39,500 · Health+4 moreKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $183,000 · EducationNew Vision House of Hope Inc — $75,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $34,678 · EducationDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION — $22,500 · EducationBALTIMORE CITY CHILDCARE COALITION INC — $18,000 · Education+1 more — $7,380 · EducationDOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE INC — $42,500 · Human ServicesMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER — $35,984 · Human ServicesLAMB INC — $23,022 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE URBAN LEAGUE INC — $19,000 · Human ServicesST MARYS OUTREACH INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesDaniel Carl Torsch Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGING HOPE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE CONNECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGREENMOUNT SENIOR CENTER INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesLETS THRIVE BALTIMORE — $6,500 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN CENTER INC — $6,307 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,194,840Food & Nutrition$741,993Community Improvement$735,904Housing & Shelter$734,445Health$724,738Education$340,558Human Services$188,313

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 budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $557,943 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP — $453,372 over 3y, 10% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC — $363,837 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC — $363,837 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetKESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER INC — $276,408 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOutcast Food Network — $184,050 over 3y, 50% of budgetKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $183,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER BALTIMORE INC — $168,440 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetGRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $130,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BALTIMORE INC — $126,750 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED — $95,550 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC — $88,251 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Vision House of Hope Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPLEASANT HOUSING INC — $73,558 over 2y, 19% of budgetGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC — $71,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $67,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $57,960 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLAY POTS INC — $48,332 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE INC — $42,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER — $35,984 over 2y, 20% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $34,678 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTION IN MATURITY INC — $32,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetICARRE FOUNDATION INC — $31,400 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBALTIMORE HEALTHY START INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $24,614 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUnity Properties Inc — $23,060 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA HOUSE INC — $22,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE URBAN LEAGUE INC — $19,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetST MARYS OUTREACH INC — $11,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetAN END TO IGNORANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHARBEL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLOVE & CORNBREAD — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetThe Pride Center Of Maryland Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHEARTSMILES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER MOUNT HOLLY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDaniel Carl Torsch Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Harry and Jeanett…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…Fund for Educational …Annie E Casey Foundat…Baltimore Civic Fund …France-Merrick Founda…West Baltimore Renais…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Morris Goldseker …Alliance for Open Soc…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD73× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Alliance for Open Society Int'L 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 Civic Works 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 · 190%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Baltimore Urban League Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Muslim Social Services Agency — 65% of income from government
  • New Vision House of Hope Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Southwest Partnership Inc — 50% of income from government
  • The Pride Center of Maryland Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Baltimore Healthy Start Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Bridging Hope Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Parity Baltimore Incorporated — 11% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp — 6% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
21report 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.

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 91 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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