· Public charity
Connections Thru Life Inc
Our organizations mission is to offer support and increase awareness among individuals and entities within the community, both socially and financially.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $864k
- $250k+13 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $4,617,369 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IHV CLINICAL | $2,451,269 |
| PROJECT PLASE | $2,083,385 |
| CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES | $1,766,568 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE CAPM | $1,540,072 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL PLUS | $1,432,931 |
| PARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM | $1,169,570 |
| MOVEABLE FEAST | $1,116,822 |
| TOTAL HEALTH CARE INC | $912,173 |
| LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHEN | $593,079 |
| HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $518,438 |
| NEW VISION HOUSE OF HOPE | $456,892 |
| SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE | $389,600 |
| HARFORD COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $244,767 |
| BALTIMORE COUNTY DEPT OF HEALTH | $216,752 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $946k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -100% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PPPROJECT PLASE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +1%
- CBCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +20%
- MFMOVEABLE FEAST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- JRJOSEPH RICHEY HOUSE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $779 · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the health of our community by providing holistic, patient-centered, outcomes driven care, support services, and health sciences research to transform the lives of our patients, their families, and underserved communities. we…
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
Health center with comprehensive community-based medical, behavioral, dental and various navigation, outreach, engagement and education supports for underserved communities and specific expertise in lgbtq and hiv care.
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
Bmhc is a no wrong-door safety net program for men of color. our patients receive a head-to-toe assessment to address all possible concerns which will inform our health care professionals of the current state of your health. any validated…
To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.
Our mission is to offer comprehensive, professional health care with respect and kindness to everyone in our community, including the most vulnerable.
Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…
To improve the health status of patients and the residents living in the communities surrounding the organization's delivery sites through an organized, comprehensive program of primary care delivery, health education and health-related…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Park West Health System Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PLASE INC ↗
- Who funds CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds PARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Total Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds New Vision House of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS TOGETHER AND REACHING INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH RICHEY HOUSE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Associated Black Charities Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Johns Hopkins University · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization Connections Thru Life 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.
- Light Health and Wellness Comprehensive Services Inc — 74% of income from government
- New Vision House of Hope Inc — 63% of income from government
- Project Plase Inc — 39% of income from government
- Park West Health System Inc — 35% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Total Health Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Chase Brexton Health Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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