How much did DRYDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Education$239kRecreation & Sports$13kPhilanthropy$7kCommunity Improvement$6kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$4kAnimals$3kArts & Culture$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$113k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

children's

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

—

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $24k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$843k

Total assets

Largest grants

CALVERT SCHOOL$10,000
LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATIONS$7,500
THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL$3,500
AMC TIGER CLUB ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP$2,625
PEBBLE CREEK ELEMENTARY$2,500
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$2,500
CLIMB WYOMING$2,000
CST BASEBALL INC$1,860
GILMAN SCHOOL$1,000
AMCMS PTO$750

02The need

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 (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 11%. 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$319k · 22 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$319k

$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%

+26%

Still filing today

59%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CS
CALVERT SCHOOL
7× · 2018–2024 · $201k · revenue +37%
TO
THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL
4× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +85%
GS
GILMAN SCHOOL
6× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +1%

Funded once

IC
ISLAND CONVERSATION
one grant, 2021 · $10k
WI
WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +8%
G
GILCHRIST
one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

The Park School of Baltimore

To provide education to students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Education

Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education

Baltimore Lab School Inc

Provide an exceptional, college-preparatory education for bright students in grades 1-12 with learning disabilities.

Education

Baltimore Symphony Endowment Trust

To support the baltimore symphony orchestra in accomplishing its missions.

Education

Harbor School

Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.

Education

Baltimore Montessori Inc

To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.

Education

The Seed School of Maryland

The seed school of md is a statewide, public, college-preparatory boarding school. by design and state-law, seed md serves students who could most benefit from our 24-hour learning environment.

Education

Maryland State Golf Association

The maryland state golf association (msga) is dedicated to promoting the game of golf in maryland and washington, dc. we welcome golfers of all ages and abilities and offer a range of initiatives aimed at enriching and expanding the…

Recreation & Sports

Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School

To provide a continuous education program for boys and girls from preschool through high school.

Education

Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college (see schedule o)

Education

Green Hedges School Inc

Green Hedges inspires young people of talent and promise to develop clear values, a desire for wisdom, and an appreciation for all endeavors which broaden the mind and enlighten the spirit.

Education

The Harbor School Corporation

The harbor school embraces the uniqueness of each young child and teaches students to celebrate this in themselves and in each other. our holistic approach nurtures confident, kind, and capable learners.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Odyssey School Inc and the most unlike its peers is C3 Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% 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%0/28

the rest of the field

12%

5,066/41,821

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

21/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$239,440Other$119,950Recreation & Sports$13,360Philanthropy$6,900Community Improvement$6,000Health$6,000Housing & Shelter$4,000

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan · The Marion I & Henry J Knott · W P Carey Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust · Michael J & Patricia K Batza Foundation · Ac and Penney Hubbard · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan · The Davis Family 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 DRYDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: RONNY MAHER MEMORIAL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462221140 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 RONNY MAHER MEMORIAL INC, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
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 Dryden Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dryden Family Foundation 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.

DRYDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dryden Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

DRYDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dryden Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph