How much did CIVIC WORKS INC grant in FY2024?

Housing & Shelter$734kCommunity Improvement$649kHealth$636kFood & Nutrition$521kEducation$341kHuman Services$188kPhilanthropy$108kReligion$68kCivil Rights$50kOther$955k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

participation leadershipleadership team

2020

participation leadershipleadership teamemergency foodfood access

2021

outreach casecase managementcovid vaccinesocial internemergency foodfood access

2022

covid vacineaccess covidemergency foodfood access

2023

covid vaccineaccess covidemergency foodfood access

2024

covid vaccineaccess covidemergency foodfood access

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants

OUTCAST FOOD NETWORK$52,500
PARITY BALTIMORE INC$50,550
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH CENTER$50,000
CASA INC$50,000
PLEASANT HOUSING$48,558
CLAY POTS$48,332
MEALS ON WHEELS$27,500
NEW VISION HOUSE OF HOPE INC$27,500
MARYLAND PHYSICIANS CARE$27,436
DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE$25,000
BALTIMORE HEALTHY START INC$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

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% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$3.0M · 26 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +76% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$999k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%

Still filing today

85%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyOther

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 MARYLAND
4× · 2018–2024 · $469k · revenue +47%
BN
BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS
2× · 2018–2021 · $366k · revenue +29%
SA
ST AMBROSE HOUSING CENTER
2× · 2018–2021 · $364k · revenue +19%

Funded once

KM
KESWICK MULTI-CAREgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $183k · revenue +31%
GM
GRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC
one grant, 2023 · $130k · revenue -91%
AC
ADULLUM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

Somebody Cares Baltimore Inc

The mission of Somebody Cares Baltimore is to connect people to opportunities to serve their community, and connect organizations to work together.

Religion

Baltimore Unity Hall Inc

Community Improvement

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.

Community Improvement

Baltimore Outreach Services Inc

Baltimore Outreach Services, Inc. is a 24-hour, 7 day per week shelter for women and their children, providing wrap around case management services and assistance with moving them to independent housing.

Human Services

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc

To provide quality patient care, educate medical students & residents, and engage in medical research to improve the lives of our patients and our community.

Health

Baltimore Washington Medical Center Inc

To provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve.

Health

Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater baybrook alliance is non-profit community development corporation, responsible for a wide range of community building, neighborhood revitalization, and leadership development for the south baltimore peninsula.

Community Improvement

Leadership Maryland Inc

Building a better maryland takes a special kind of strength-the kind of strength you'll find every day in leaders throughout our local businesses and communities. at leadership maryland, we harness that strength by bringing together local…

Public Benefit

Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore

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University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.

Health

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

Maryland Community Health Initiatives

The organization served approximately 5,000 people - more than 100 people take part in services offered at penn-north each day. clinical services are provided to over 800 clients per year.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manna House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keswick Multi-Care Center Inc. 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.

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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/90

the rest of the field

12%

1,311/11,072

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.

05the grantee network

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/71

Grantees still filing

54/71

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,180,980Housing & Shelter$734,445Community Improvement$648,532Health$636,487Food & Nutrition$521,348Education$340,558Human Services$188,313

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.

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 Foundation IncMD80.9× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc · Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

31get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OUTCAST FOOD NETWORK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822848271 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OUTCAST FOOD NETWORK, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Civic Works Inc?

Find your warmest path to Civic Works Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CIVIC WORKS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Works Inc?

More from the funding graph

CIVIC WORKS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Works Inc?

More from the funding graph