How much did CLAYTON BAKER TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of CLAYTON BAKER TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

relief victimsleadershipsolutionsconservationyouthclimateliteracy

2019

youthunion

2020

youthstrongcatholiclegalchange

2021

healthemmanuel churchdevelopmemtconservancycatholicbook bank

2022

conservancydevelopmemtclimate

2023

conservancydevelopmemtclimate

2024

eductaioncommuntiydevelopmemtconservancyclimateplanned parenthoodlegal

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

03FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k67 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k15 grants · $988k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$42M

Total assets

Largest grants

Center for Climate Change Communication$115,000
Union of Concerned Scientists$105,000
Rebuild Metro$95,000
HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS$77,500
Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore$75,000
BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA$70,000
Central MD Transportation Alliance$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$50,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network$50,000
i-Mentor$50,000
BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPO$50,000
Climate Access Fund$50,000
UPSURGE BALTIMORE$50,000
Bikemore$50,000
BRIDGES BALTIMORE$50,000

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 (FY17–24, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 124 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

124 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124

Total granted

$13M

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+33%

Still filing today

49%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

Chesapeake Bay Foundation
5× · 2017–2021 · $757k · revenue +1%
Union of Concerned Scientists
5× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +5%
B
Bikemore
8× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +31%

Funded once

GS
Green Street Academygraduated
one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +49%
EC
Emmanuel Church Outreach Fund
one grant, 2021 · $70k
HO
House of Ruth Marylandgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +29%

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.

Baltimore Green Space a Land Trustfor Community-Managed Open Space in

Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.

Environment

Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

To provide a strong, unified and effective voice for the business community in the functional area of urban affairs and public policy, business services and information, and economic development, thereby promoting the Baltimore Region as…

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Maryland Center On Economic Policy Inc

The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.

Social Science

Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

Build an efficient and detailed curriculum for all interested baltimore city public schools.

Education

Metropolitan Baltimore Council of

The mission of the metropolititan baltimore council afl-cio unions is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal

University of Baltimore Foundation Inc

Established to raise, manage funds, and provide financial support to the university of baltimore.

Education

Family League of Baltimore City Inc

Family League of Baltimore works collaboratively to support data-informed, community-driven solutions that align resources to dismantle the systemic barriers which limit the possibilities for children, families, and communities

Human Services

The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors Inc

The greater baltimore board of realtors, inc. is an advocate for the business and professional interests of its members, the practice of high ethical standards in the transfer of real property, and preserving private property rights.

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Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc

Committed to anti-racist practices and to black leadership.

Human Services

Baltimore Heritage Incorporated

To preserve historic places in Baltimore.

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Business Volunteers Maryland Inc

Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/117

the rest of the field

12%

1,697/14,368

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

109 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)

103/109

Grantees still filing

81/109

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,757,176Environment$1,939,000Education$1,727,250Community Improvement$677,000Arts & Culture$537,000Health$515,000Human Services$455,000

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 IncMD121.1× affinity67 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 · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · The Morris Goldseker Foundation · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable

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 CLAYTON BAKER TRUST 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

44get no government money at all

4rely 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: Mindful Mentors Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463853554 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 Mindful Mentors Inc, 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 59% 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 Clayton Baker Trust?

Find your warmest path to Clayton Baker Trust 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.

CLAYTON BAKER TRUST

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

109 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clayton Baker Trust?

More from the funding graph

CLAYTON BAKER TRUST

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

109 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clayton Baker Trust?

More from the funding graph