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Ensign C Markland Kelly Jr Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Ensign C Markland Kelly Jr Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$153k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$51k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$495kArts & Culture$342kAnimals$257kHealth$163kYouth Development$97kRecreation & Sports$80kHuman Services$51kCivil Rights$2k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLSPRING OF LIFE FARM INC$51,000
ENS C MARKLAND KELLY JR TIMONIUM MEMORIAL POST # 174$27,090
THE FIRE MUSEUM OF MARYLAND$25,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$25,000
THE BALTIMORE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA$10,000
ST JOHNS COLLEGE$6,000
INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF MARYLAND$5,000
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER FLAG HOUSE$2,000
MID-ATLANTIC GSP RESCUE INC$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WELLSPRING OF LIFE FARM INC: $51k → 11%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 13 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$1.3M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+49%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MZ
    MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +35%
  • TB
    THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +130%
  • RP
    ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $203k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +49%
  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +124%
  • HM
    HOMEWOOD MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
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 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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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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8
University of Maryland Family Medicine 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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9
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 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
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
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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12
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $202,500 · EducationROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INCGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $200,000 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATEDST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $36,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGEINDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $30,000 · EducationINDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF MARYLAND …THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S…BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHE…FIRE MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFIRE MUSEUM OF MARYLAND …MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $250,000 · AnimalsMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBR…ENS C MARKLAND KELLY JR TIMONIUM MEMORIAL POST # 174: $86,796 · OtherENS C MARK…BALTIMORE REGIONAL BURN CENTER: $12,500 · OtherBALTIMORE …STAR-SPANGLED BANNER FLAG HOUSE: $12,000 · OtherSTAR-SPANG…THE BALTIMORE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA: $10,000 · OtherTHE BALTIM…MID-ATLANTIC GSP RESCUE INC: $6,500 · OtherHOMEWOOD MUSEUM: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,500 · OtherUS LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsWELLSPRING OF LIFE FARM INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Education$494,500Arts & Culture$315,000Animals$250,000Health$150,000Other$134,296Recreation & Sports$80,000Human Services$51,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $250,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $202,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUS LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $30,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Institute: $1,000 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 MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds US LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING OF LIFE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds FIRE MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Institute ↗

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.

T Rowe Price Program …Dr Frank C Marino Fou…The John J Leidy Foun…The Charles T Bauer C…The Bunting Family Fo…Baltimore Community F…The Huethermcclelland…Thomas Wilson Sanitar…Campbell Foundation I…The Joseph Meyerhoff …The Kahlert Foundatio…T Rowe Price Foundati…
T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation · The Bunting Family Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Huethermcclelland Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Campbell Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price 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 Ensign C Markland Kelly Jr Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ensign C Markland Kelly Jr Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Maryland School for the Blind: 47% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
  • St John's College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Ensign C Markland Kelly Jr Memorial 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 21 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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