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Egenton Roberts Foundation

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.

$304k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$993kYouth Development$672kHealth$113kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $226k
$20,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lillie May Carroll Jackson Middle$95,000
Samuel Ready Scholarship$80,688
Middle Grades Partnership$50,000
Baltimore Leadership School$20,500
My Sisters Circle$20,000
Girls Empowerment Mission$20,000
Ballet After Dark$10,000
The Ingenuity Project$7,500
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 (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Art with a Heart Inc: $5k → 19%Art with a Heart Inc: $5k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 12 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+66%

Still filing today

42%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • SR
    SAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $617k · revenue +33%
  • TI
    The Ingenuity Project Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +20%
  • Art With a Heart Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May Carroll Jackson Chartergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $81k · revenue +66%
  • FF
    Foundation for Balto Leader School
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • CS
    Childrens Scholarship Fund Balt
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lillie May Carroll Jackson Middle: $355,000 · OtherLillie May Carroll Jackson MiddleMIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIP: $230,000 · OtherMIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIPGirls Empowerment Mission: $100,000 · OtherGirls Empowerment MissionBaltimore Leadership School: $97,825 · OtherBaltimore Leadership SchoolMerit Health Leadership Academy: $90,900 · OtherMerit Health Leadership Academy+5 more: $63,700 · Other+5 moreSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $617,032 · EducationSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INCThe Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter: $81,340 · EducationThe Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May C…+1 more: $20,000 · EducationSisters Circle Inc: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBALLET AFTER DARK INCORPORATED: $22,500 · HealthArt With a Heart Inc: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$937,425Education$718,372Youth Development$100,000Health$22,500Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $617,032 over 8y, 11% of budgetSisters Circle Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetThe Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter: $81,340 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBALLET AFTER DARK INCORPORATED: $22,500 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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 SAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Sisters Circle Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter ↗
  • Who funds BALLET AFTER DARK INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds The Ingenuity Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds Art With a Heart 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 Foundation IncMD17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey 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 Egenton Roberts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Egenton Roberts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Egenton Roberts Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Egenton Roberts 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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