· Private foundation
Clayton Baker Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $988k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Climate Access Fund | $50,000 |
| BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPO | $50,000 |
| i-Mentor | $50,000 |
| Chesapeake Climate Action Network | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Bikemore | $50,000 |
| BRIDGES BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
118 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $757k · revenue +53%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +6%- BIBIKEMORE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- GSGREEN STREET ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +48%
- ECEmmanuel Church Outreach Fundone grant, 2021 · $70k
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +118%
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.
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.
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…
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.
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.
Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
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.
The mission of baltimore community lending is supporting the revitalization and strengthening of underserved communities in the greater baltimore region through innovative financial solutions and collaborative resources designed to promote…
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.
How this is measured
140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 216 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BIKEMORE INC ↗
- Who funds B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD METRO INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Patterson Park Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds The Downtown Sailing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ↗
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 Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clayton Baker Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clayton Baker Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
- Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
- Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc: 63% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc: 50% of income from government
- The Maryland School for the Blind: 47% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc: 40% of income from government
- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc: 40% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations: 27% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc: 23% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc: 21% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
- Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Cen: 17% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc: 16% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc: 7% of income from government
- 4MyCity Inc: 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc: 6% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc: 5% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Arc Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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