· Public charity
Family League of Baltimore City Inc
FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE SERVES AS AN ARCHITECT OF CHANGE IN BALTIMORE BY PROMOTING DATA DRIVEN, COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES AND ALIGNING RESOURCES TO CREATE LASTING OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 60 grants below total $17,814,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,603,357 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $788,632 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+20 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRUMONDAWMIN HEALTHY FAMILIE | $2,555,114 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $1,488,734 |
| FAMILY RECOVERY PROGRAM INC | $1,377,099 |
| BALTIMORE HEALTHY START | $1,011,955 |
| CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC | $928,566 |
| THE FAMILY TREE INC | $803,394 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE | $730,352 |
| SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE | $635,859 |
| NEW VISION YOUTH SERVICES | $538,388 |
| ACCESS ARTS INC | $469,040 |
| LEARNING HOW CHILD DEVELOPMEN | $453,500 |
| ELEV8 BALTIMORE INC | $447,428 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MD BALT COUNTY | $432,960 |
| BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT | $424,134 |
| KEY EMPOWERS INC | $413,224 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $50.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
118 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DHDRUM HEALTHY FAMILIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +139% · 99% of their budget
- CFCHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.5M · revenue +39% · 53% of their budget
- TFTHE FAMILY TREE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +109%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMOREone grant, 2022 · $1.3M
- BBELLXCELone grant, 2021 · $323k
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $225k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.
Baltimore Sports Academy serves under resourced communities by providing elementary-aged youth access to summer camps, after school programs, and sports leagues to develop strong bodies, minds and spirits. We assist youth to have success…
Baltimore International Academy-East is committed to providing a rigorous academiclearning environment that challenges all students to achieve our language immersion(Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, & French) and International…
Baltimore International Academy-West is committed to providing a rigorous academiclearning environment that challenges all students to achieve our language immersion(Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, & French) and International…
The mission of IBIM Girls is to empower girls to B.E.L.I.E.V.E (Become Emerging Leaders Inspiring Excellence and Values Everyday) through group mentoring and leadership training necessary to become responsible, productive and successful…
Education, mentoring, and tutoring
The mission of The Ingenuity Project is to prepare and launch the next diverse generation of nationally competitive STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) leaders from Baltimore City Public Schools.
Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…
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.
Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city. the fund awards grants to community-based, youth-serving organizations and provides capacity-building and technical assistance to…
The greenmount west community center foundation serves as incubator which invests and supports the greatness and talent of baltimore's youth. we do this through innovative programming that evolves with the development and the needs of our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is Black Girls Cook. 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.
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 18 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
145 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. 145 of the 209 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds DRUM HEALTHY FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY RECOVERY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HEALTHY START INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ART INC ↗
- Who funds ELEV8BALTIMOREINC ↗
- Who funds THE BELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS EMPOWERS INC ↗
- Who funds PARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MEDICAL SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HUMANIM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEBIRD EDUCATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BALTIMORE COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds RICH Restoring Inner City Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PRESSLEY RIDGE ↗
- Who funds LEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Treatment Resources for Youth Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · West Baltimore Renaissance 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 Family League of Baltimore City 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.
- Baltimore Urban League Inc — 100% of income from government
- Unified Efforts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Baltimore Healthy Start Inc — 43% of income from government
- Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
- Northbay Education Inc — 28% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Family Recovery Program Inc — 22% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Cen — 17% of income from government
- Uplift Alliance Inc — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Park Heights Renaissance Inc — 10% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Medical System Inc — 8% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp — 6% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Restorative Response Baltimore Inc — 4% of income from government
- Access Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
- Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Time Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Center On Institutions and Alternatives Inc — 0% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.