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Civic Works Inc

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

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$2.1MHealth$850kHuman Services$579kHousing & Shelter$497kEducation$276kCommunity Improvement$261kCivil Rights$50kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $265,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $286,479 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,479 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC$50,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$50,000
BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORPORATION$50,000
KESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER INC$50,000
ST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
MOVEABLE FEAST INC$10,000
CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR OUR PATIENTS INC$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$10,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 26 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
64

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $618k · revenue +108%
  • BN
    BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP
    4× · 2017–2025 · $503k · revenue +52%
  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $414k · 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%
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
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
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
—
5
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

—
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 Wedding Initiative Inc
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9
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
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.

—
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 Assistance Network Inc

The community assistance network, inc. (can)'s mission is to work in partnership with the community to develop, operate, and support programs that reduce vulnerability and empower personal growth, dignity, stability and self-sufficiency…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charm City Care Connection Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 92 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
44/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER INC: $326,408 · OtherKESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER IN…STRONG 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 · OtherMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $45,000 · OtherSTILLMEADOW EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $67,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPM…CLAY POTS INC: $48,332 · OtherProfessional Development and Research Center International: $50,000 · Other+33 more: $409,753 · Other+33 moreMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $617,943 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF…Outcast Food Network: $184,050 · Food & NutritionOutcast Food Netwo…BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP: $503,372 · Community ImprovementBANNER NEIGHBORHOO…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BALTIMORE INC: $126,750 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSI…FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementACTION IN MATURITY INC: $32,500 · Community Improvement+8 more: $88,282 · Community Improvement+8 moreLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $413,837 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH …GRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $130,000 · HealthGRACE MEDICAL CENT…SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $88,251 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF …GREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC: $71,750 · HealthGREEN & HEALTHY HO…ICARRE FOUNDATION INC: $31,400 · Health+5 more: $49,500 · Health+5 moreST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC: $388,837 · 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 & ShelterKESWICK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $183,000 · EducationNew Vision House of Hope Inc: $75,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $44,678 · 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 ServicesBRIDGING HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDaniel Carl Torsch Foundation 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$1,254,840Food & Nutrition$801,993Community Improvement$785,904Health$784,738Housing & Shelter$759,445Education$350,558Human Services$188,313

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 budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $617,943 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP: $503,372 over 4y, 10% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $413,837 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC: $388,837 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetKESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER INC: $326,408 over 4y, 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 budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $44,678 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 budgetMANNA HOUSE INC: $22,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetBMORE EMPOWERED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBlack Mental Health Alliance for Education and Consultation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNUESTRAS RAICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEARTSMILES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAN END TO IGNORANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHESAPEAKE REGIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR OUR PATIENTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGING HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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 Civic Works Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Civic Works Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 92 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 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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