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Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND MEDICINE INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELPING UP MISSION$25,000
MERCY HEALTH CENTER$20,000
BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER JOHN HOPKINS HEALTH CENTER$12,500
SOUL CENTER$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSION OF MERCY: $8k → 9%GOODWIN HOUSE: $10k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 19%MISSION OF MERCY: $4k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 19%GOODWIN HOUSE: $10k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 19%THE SAMARITAN WOMEN: $20k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$474k · 17 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$474k
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+76%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • HU
    HELPING UP MISSION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +83%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +45%
  • FR
    FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • SS
    SPIRIT SICKLE CELL SIMPSON UM CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • PF
    PATHWAY FORWARD ALLEN AME
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • MM
    MERITUS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

2
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
3
Revive Inc

Empowering individuals on their journey to lasting recovery. our team of dedicated professionals offer a dynamic blend of therapeutic support and personal empowerment. we dont just offer recovery; we provide a roadmap to your vibrant…

Health
4
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
5
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
6
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
Argus Community Inc

Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…

Health
9
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
10
Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health
11
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
12
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission of Mercy Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HELPING UP MISSION INC — $97,500 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCTHE SOUL CENTER — $43,500 · OtherTHE SOUL CENTERMERCY HEALTH CENTER — $40,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH CENTERBAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER JOHN HOPKINS HEALTH CENTER — $37,500 · OtherBAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER JOHN HOPKINS HEALTH CENTERGEORGE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF SPIRITUAL CARE — $25,000 · OtherMOUNT GREGORY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherMARYLAND FAITH HEALTH NETWORK — $25,000 · OtherALVIN & LOIS LAPIDES CENTER FOR HEALTH & SPIRITUAL CARE — $25,000 · OtherSPIRIT SICKLE CELL SIMPSON UM CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherHopeSprings Inc — $22,500 · OtherPATHWAY FORWARD ALLEN AME — $20,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR WELL-BEING (LIFE DOULA PROGRAM) CO CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherHealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network — $17,000 · Other+6 more — $53,650 · Other+6 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNI…GOODWIN HOUSE INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Human ServicesGOODWIN HOUSE …INSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR …MISSION OF MERCY INC — $11,250 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MER…MERITUS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC — $12,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $10,000 · HealthON OUR OWN OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY — $5,000 · HealthFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$496,650Human Services$81,250Health$47,500Housing & Shelter$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $97,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHopeSprings Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGOODWIN HOUSE INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERITUS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network — $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC — $11,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetON OUR OWN OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY — $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budget
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 HELPING UP MISSION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds HopeSprings Inc
  • Who funds GOODWIN HOUSE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds MERITUS MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC
  • Who funds HealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
  • Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds ON OUR OWN OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Helping Up Mission Inc6% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine Inc?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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