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Dicarlo Plank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.9MArts & Culture$2.8MCrime & Legal$2.0MEducation$1.7MEnvironment$973kHuman Services$897kRecreation & Sports$503kHealth$272kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $186k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,515
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$50,000
PORT DISCOVERY$40,000
ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$40,000
CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC$15,473
CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF MARYLAND$15,000
WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE$13,793
EAGLES MERE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$11,500
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL$10,000
IFP FISCAL SPONSORSHIP$10,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
SMITH COLLEGE$10,000
PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY$5,155
FOUNDATION 4 HEROES$5,000
SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $601k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC: $21k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC: $9k → 6%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: $95k → 8%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: $80k → 8%AIM HIGH: $1k → 10%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 14%PEP (PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM): $70k → 8%PEP (PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM): $45k → 8%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: $10k → 8%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $5k → 17%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $5k → 19%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $2k → 19%UPTON PLANNING COMMITTEE: $1k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $67k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $58k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $11k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $7k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 73 repeat orgs$741k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
92

Total granted

$12M
$733k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+22%

Still filing today

64%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SS
    SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $924k · revenue +20% · 30% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $838k · revenue +102%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $318k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • BM
    Big Mouth Productions Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • P(
    PEP (PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE)
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • LF
    LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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10
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
11
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; the most unlike its peers is War Horse Cities Community Development Corporation 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

106 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. 106 of the 171 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/106
Grantees still filing
79/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE POLICE WERSTEN DISTRICT: $1,945,828 · OtherBALTIMORE POLICE WERSTEN DISTRICTSANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC: $923,948 · OtherSANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INCTHE WALDORF SCHOOL: $904,676 · OtherTHE WALDORF SCHOOLEVERFI INC: $450,000 · OtherEVERFI INCBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $362,471 · OtherBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSMARIPOSA: $267,388 · OtherBUILDING STEPS FOUNDATION: $262,252 · OtherMETROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY: $255,000 · Other+95 more: $1,294,822 · Other+95 moreWAR HORSE CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $2,822,398 · PhilanthropyWAR HORSE CITIES COMMUNI…+5 more: $93,013 · PhilanthropyTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $838,043 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE CHI…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $287,496 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES…CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF MARYLAND INC: $255,779 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S CHORUS…Sundance Institute: $175,700 · Arts & CultureSundance Institut…INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATU…+18 more: $266,556 · Arts & Culture+18 morePARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $155,242 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $101,050 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES INC: $30,170 · Human Services+6 more: $15,582 · Human ServicesTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $317,955 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $120,951 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $31,824 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Education+10 more: $44,301 · EducationROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentEAGLES MERE CONSERVANCY: $32,993 · EnvironmentSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 · HealthPEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC: $45,000 · HealthFOUNDATION 4 HEROES INC: $45,000 · HealthMercy Health Foundation: $21,100 · HealthTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $20,000 · HealthTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $11,500 · HealthPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $10,433 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,650 · Health+2 more: $2,105 · Health
Other$6,666,385Philanthropy$2,915,411Arts & Culture$1,983,574Human Services$602,044Education$588,031Environment$248,993Health$214,788

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAR HORSE CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $2,822,398 over 5y, 89% of budgetSANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC: $923,948 over 5y, 30% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $838,043 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $317,955 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC: $300,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $287,496 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S CHORUS OF MARYLAND INC: $255,779 over 8y, 15% of budgetMETROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY: $255,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetSundance Institute: $175,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $174,307 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $160,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $155,242 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetROLAND PARK BASEBALL LEAGUES INC: $140,272 over 7y, 19% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $120,951 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $101,050 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLES MERE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $48,881 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $47,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $46,525 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC: $45,089 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION 4 HEROES INC: $45,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE INC: $44,234 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetSHERWOOD GARDENS STRATFORD GREEN FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC: $37,580 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Downtown Sailing Center Inc: $37,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetEAGLES MERE CONSERVANCY: $32,993 over 4y, 17% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $31,824 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $30,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES INC: $30,170 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $28,563 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $25,248 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $21,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE TENNIS & EDUCATION: $14,058 over 4y, 11% of budgetSAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $10,433 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds WAR HORSE CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY ↗
  • Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds ROLAND PARK BASEBALL LEAGUES INC ↗
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLES MERE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION 4 HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHERWOOD GARDENS STRATFORD GREEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
  • Who funds HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Downtown Sailing Center Inc ↗

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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Program …Associated Jewish Cha…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…The Bunting Family Fo…The Kahlert Foundatio…The Joseph Meyerhoff …T Rowe Price Foundati…Brown Advisory Charit…Patricia and Mark Jos…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD52.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc

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 Dicarlo Plank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dicarlo Plank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Upton Planning Committee Inc: 100% of income from government
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Baltimore Squashwise Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Parent Encouragement Program Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • Hippodrome Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • People Encouraging People Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 Dicarlo Plank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dicarlo Plank Foundation 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 171 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-PF 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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