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Constellation Energy Foundation Inc Cfnd01

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$525kEmployment$460kPhilanthropy$420kHealth$214kCivil Rights$200kEnvironment$130kHuman Services$95kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $935k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$55,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES$260,000
SKILLSUSA$200,000
THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE$200,000
NATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT$120,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$115,000
VEHICLES FOR CHANGE$80,000
UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY$65,000
UNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY$55,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$50,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER OSWEGO COUNTY$50,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND$40,000
UNITED WAY OF GRUNDY COUNTY$25,000
UNITED WAY OF EASTERN LASALLE COUNTY$15,000
UNITED WAY OF KANKAKEE & IROQUOIS$15,000
KEWANEE AREA UNITED WAY$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $200k → 17%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $80k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
PA
CT
CO
VA
MD
FL

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.

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 4 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
20

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+26%

Still filing today

50%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • TP
    THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue -19%
  • BM
    BRYN MAWR SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $450k
  • HM
    HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $350k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +32%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • WC
    WILLIAMS COLLEGE FOR THE NEW
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

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.

1
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
3
Cedar Valley United Way

Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.

Philanthropy
4
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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6
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Delaware

The organization's mission is to maximize the community's resources to improve the quality of lives of all delawareans.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
9
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc

Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.

Philanthropy
11
United Way for Southeastern Michigan

To mobilize the caring power of detroit and southeastern michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
United Way of Cumberland County Inc

Organization is dedicated to raising funds for programs that meet the human care needs of the people of cumberland county.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southern Maryland and the most unlike its peers is Chebeague Island Living History Farm. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUnited Way FederationsCommunity Health CentersCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity FoundationsSenior Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts Organizations
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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr22%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr22%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,329

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.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRYN MAWR SCHOOL — $450,000 · OtherBRYN MAWR SCHOOLCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $260,000 · OtherCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADESSKILLSUSA — $200,000 · OtherSKILLSUSAJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE — $200,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEWILLIAMS COLLEGE — $200,000 · OtherWILLIAMS COLLEGEWILLIAMS COLLEGE FOR THE NEW — $100,000 · OtherWILLIAMS COLLEGE FOR THE NEW+9 more — $120,000 · Other+9 moreHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC — $350,000 · EducationHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INCPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $250,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Mi…SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $100,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER…CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $100,000 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATEDECHOING GREEN INC — $100,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INC+1 more — $25,000 · EducationTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PEALE CENTER FO…NATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ENERGY EDU…THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $115,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED …UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $65,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY — $55,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF GREATER OSWEGO COUNTY — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND — $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE C…UNITED WAY OF EASTERN LA SALLE COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $13,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc — $50,000 · InternationalMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,530,000Education$925,000Arts & Culture$655,000Philanthropy$378,500Human Services$280,000International$50,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC — $500,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC — $350,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $260,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $120,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $115,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $65,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY — $55,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER OSWEGO COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND — $40,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GRUNDY COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EASTERN LA SALLE COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChebeague Island Living History Farm — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKEWANEE AREA UNITED WAY — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSTOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Baltimore Community F…The Marion I & Henry …Fund for Educational …France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…T Rowe Price Program …The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA19.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 organization Constellation Energy Foundation Inc Cfnd01 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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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