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Fancy Hill 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE | $65,000 |
| MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE | $57,500 |
| LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS | $50,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SHEPPARD PRATT | $30,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BACK ON MY FEET | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCES ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MOTHER MARY LANGE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION | $15,000 |
| ST JAMES ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| ELEVATE YOUTH INC | $10,000 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGE5× · 2018–2022 · $275k · revenue +16%
- MHMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $218k · revenue +47%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- FHFair Hill Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -92%
- BBBRANCH BANKING & TRUST COMPANYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MFMPT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +54%
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is St James Academy Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 45 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
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 BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Elevate Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds Fair Hill Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES ACADEMY 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Middendorf Foundation Inc · Campbell Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Inc · The Pennyghael 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 Fancy Hill Foundation 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.
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System 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.
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