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· 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.
$20M
Granted FY2024
18
Grants
1
Communities
$4.6M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of CONNECTIONS THRU LIFE INC’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.
02FY2024 · 18 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $864k
- $250k+13 grants · $19M
$912,173
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
02The need
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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 (FY22–24, $946k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 15 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -91% 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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
1
Total granted
$19M
$779
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+19%
-91%
Still filing today
60%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalOther
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
- CBCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +74%
- MFMOVEABLE FEAST3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +19%
- PWPARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +73%
Funded once
- GHGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $779 · revenue -91%
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.
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Baltimore Washington Medical Center Inc
To provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve.
Health
2
Hh Medstar Health Inc
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
Health
3
Bethesda Healthcare Inc
Outpatient services to the greater cincinnati community and surrounding suburbs.
Health
4
Health Services Inc
Patient centered healthcare system enhancing the lives of individuals and families by providing access to affordable comprehensive health and wellness services in montgomery and the surrounding areas.
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5
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc
To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.
Health
6
Grace Health Inc
To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.
Health
7
Hebrew Health Care Inc
Provision of exceptional health care & aging services tailored to each individual.
Health
8
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc
Provide comprehensive primary healthcare services to residents of central kentucky, and specifically medically under-served areas within lexington-fayette county.
Health
9
Georgetown Healthcare System Inc
The organization is dedicated to the promotion of quality, accessible healthcare for all persons living in the georgetown, tx community and surrounding area. as a partner in the st. david's healthcare partnership, we provide healthcare to…
Health
10
Interior Community Health Center
Our mission is to provide universal access to excellent primary health care for patients of all ages, stages of life, and backgrounds.
Health
11
Health Help Inc
To enhance the health of patients, employees and the communities we serve by providing accessible and comprehensive high quality primary care services.
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12
Newark Community Health Centers Inc
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
Health
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 Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$17,779,824Health$3,956,203Human Services$946,161Education$740,458Crime & Legal$225,856
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 CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST ↗
- Who funds PARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds TOTAL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHEN ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND LEGAL AID BUREAU ↗
- Who funds SISTERS TOGETHER AND REACHING ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE 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.
Associated Black Charities IncMD37.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Associated Black Charities Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Johns Hopkins University · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of The · Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · America's Charities · American Cancer Society Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- New Vision House of Hope Inc — 54% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHEN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 522140604 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 LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHEN, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 52% 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 Connections Thru Life Inc?
Find your warmest path to Connections Thru Life Inc 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines