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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.

$445k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MHealth$630kArts & Culture$523kFood & Nutrition$515kPhilanthropy$375kAnimals$185kYouth Development$165kEnvironment$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $173k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE$65,000
MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE$57,500
LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS$50,000
LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION$30,000
SHEPPARD PRATT$30,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
ST FRANCES ACADEMY$25,000
BACK ON MY FEET$25,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT SCHOOL$20,000
MOTHER MARY LANGE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$20,000
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION$15,000
ST JAMES ACADEMY$12,500
THE ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
ELEVATE YOUTH INC$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRANCH BANKING & TRUST COMPANY: $50k → 10%MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE: $65k → 6%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $75k → 12%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 12%ASHLEY TREATMENT: $30k → 7%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 12%CALVERT SCHOOL: $35k → 19%ASHLEY TREATMENT: $30k → 7%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 12%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $50k → 12%GBMC FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SHEPPARD PRATT: $30k → 11%SHEPPARD PRATT: $30k → 11%SHEPPARD PRATT: $30k → 11%SHEPPARD PRATT: $30k → 11%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%ST FRANCES ACADEMY: $50k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $50k → 11%LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE: $58k → 19%BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 19%BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 19%BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 19%BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 19%MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE: $40k → 19%MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE: $40k → 19%MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE: $40k → 19%MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE: $40k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 26 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
15

Total granted

$3.4M
$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+54%

Still filing today

62%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $275k · revenue +16%
  • MH
    MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $218k · revenue +47%
  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • FH
    Fair Hill Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -92%
  • BB
    BRANCH BANKING & TRUST COMPANY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • PA
    PARKS AND PEOPLE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +10%
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.

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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 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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4
University of Maryland Neurology 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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5
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
6
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

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,…

Health
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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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11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 45 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS: $400,000 · OtherLADEW TOPIARY GARDENSCRISTO REY JESUIT SCHOOL: $195,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT SCHOOLST FRANCES ACADEMY: $150,000 · OtherST FRANCES ACADEMYLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATIONMOTHER MARY LANGE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherMOTHER MARY LANGE CATHOLIC SCHOOLBACK ON MY FEET: $100,000 · OtherBACK ON MY FEETIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $100,000 · OtherFIRST FRUITS FARM INC+16 more: $327,500 · Other+16 moreWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $275,336 · EducationWASHINGTON COLLEGEJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVER…CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $170,000 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCOR…ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $75,000 · EducationENOCH PRATT FREE LIB…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $217,500 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND HISTO…BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMP…CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ANTIQU…MPT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGBMC FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATI…SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $120,000 · HealthSHEPPARD PRAT…Mercy Health Foundation: $90,000 · HealthMercy Health …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $65,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S D…ASHLEY INC: $25,000 · HealthBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE …Fair Hill Foundation Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyFair Hill …MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $185,000 · AnimalsElevate Youth Inc: $160,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,582,500Education$725,336Arts & Culture$522,500Health$500,000Philanthropy$375,000Animals$185,000Youth Development$165,000

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 budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $275,336 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $217,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $185,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $170,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetElevate Youth Inc: $160,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $100,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFair Hill Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASHLEY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOREVER MARYLAND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Fair Hill Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
  • 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 PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds MPT FOUNDATION 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 ↗

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 F…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Program …Brown Advisory Charit…Associated Jewish Cha…Middendorf Foundation…Campbell Foundation I…The Kahlert Foundatio…The United Way of Cen…The Bunting Family Fo…Rollins-Luetkemeyer F…The Pennyghael Founda…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD31.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fancy Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fancy Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get 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
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fancy Hill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fancy Hill 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 45 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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