Maryland · Public charity
Civic Works Inc
Strengthening baltimore's communities through education, skills development and community service.
- $286k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $265k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Civic Works Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $265k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $497k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $1.1M | 64% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $405k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $1.2M | 84% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $62k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $939k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels of Central Marylandinc | $617,943 | 6 | 2% |
| Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp | $503,372 | 4 | 10% |
| Lifebridge Health Inc | $413,837 | 3 | 0% |
| St Ambrose Housing Aid Center Inc | $388,837 | 3 | 5% |
| Keswick Multi-Care Center Inc | $326,408 | 4 | 1% |
| Outcast Food Network | $184,050 | 3 | 50% |
| Keswick Christian School Inc | $183,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Rebuilding Together Baltimore Inc | $168,440 | 5 | 6% |
| Grace Medical Center Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc | $126,750 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 91 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Civic Works Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
About Civic Works Inc
- How much does Civic Works Inc give?
- Civic Works Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $265,000, out of $286,479 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Civic Works Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (46%), Health (18%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Civic Works Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Meals on Wheels of Central Marylandinc ($618k), Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp ($503k), Lifebridge Health Inc ($414k).
- Does Civic Works Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Civic Works Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc.
- Where is Civic Works Inc based?
- Civic Works Inc is based in MD.
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