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Connections Thru Life Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$13MEducation$4.8MHousing & Shelter$3.8MFood & Nutrition$1.7MCrime & Legal$226k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHEN: $593k → 19%LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHEN: $353k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 15 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -100% for those 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

+15%
-100%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PP
    PROJECT PLASE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +1%
  • CB
    CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +20%
  • MF
    MOVEABLE FEAST INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • JR
    JOSEPH RICHEY HOUSE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $779 · revenue -100%
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
Washington Health Institute

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…

Health
2
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

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
3
Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc

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.

Health
4
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
5
Hh Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
6
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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7
African American Mens Health Clinic

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…

Health
8
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
9
Grace Health Inc

To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.

Health
10
G Street Integrated Health

Our mission is to offer comprehensive, professional health care with respect and kindness to everyone in our community, including the most vulnerable.

Health
11
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Inc

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…

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12
Spectrum Health Services Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for the Homeless Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $4,313,070 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $1,729,485 · OtherMOVEABLE FEAST INCUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE CAPM: $1,709,618 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE CAPMPARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1,457,481 · OtherPARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM INCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $658,284 · OtherHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC+5 more: $895,683 · Other+5 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4,617,369 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNew Vision House of Hope Inc: $740,458 · EducationNew Vision House of Hope …CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $2,261,634 · HealthCHASE BREXTON HEAL…Total Health Care Inc: $1,232,776 · HealthTotal Health Care …SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $461,793 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF …PROJECT PLASE INC: $2,398,834 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT PLA…LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $946,161 · Human ServicesLEGAL AID BUREAU INC: $225,856 · Crime & Legal
Other$10,763,621Education$5,357,827Health$3,956,203Housing & Shelter$2,398,834Human Services$946,161Crime & Legal$225,856

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4,617,369 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PLASE INC: $2,398,834 over 3y, 23% of budgetCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $2,261,634 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $1,729,485 over 3y, 22% of budgetPARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1,457,481 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetTotal Health Care Inc: $1,232,776 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $946,161 over 3y, 52% of budgetNew Vision House of Hope Inc: $740,458 over 3y, 12% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $658,284 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $461,793 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID BUREAU INC: $225,856 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOSEPH RICHEY HOUSE INC: $779 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

Associated Black Char…Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…The Harry and Jeanett…Kaiser Foundation Hea…France-Merrick Founda…Johns Hopkins Univers…T Rowe Price Program …Amazonsmile Foundation
Associated Black Charities IncMD32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Connections Thru Life Inc?

Find your warmest path to Connections Thru Life Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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