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Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine Inc

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.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$355kHuman Services$132kReligion$90kEducation$20kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELPING UP MISSION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER$15,000
BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER JOHN HOPKINS HEALTH CENTER$12,500
SOLID ROCK MINISTRIES$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISSION OF MERCY: $8k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 19%MISSION OF MERCY: $4k → 9%GOODWIN HOUSE: $10k → 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
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$512k · 17 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$512k
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+76%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • HU
    HELPING UP MISSION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +83%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +45%
  • GH
    GOODWIN HOUSE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +3%

Funded once

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

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

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2
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
3
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
4
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

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5
Olivet Medical Ministry Inc

Lackey clinic's mission is to provide skilled, compassionate health care and counseling to the medically disadvantaged in a manner that honors the name of jesus christ.

Human Services
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 Hope Center Inc

Our mission is to provide comprehensive life-sustaining and life-rebuilding services that promote healing from substance use disorder, mental health disorders, and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
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
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
10
Holy Rosary Healthcare

We reveal and foster god's healing love by improving the health ofthe people and communities we serve, especially those who are poorand vulnerable.

Health
11
Medstar Health Inc

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

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwin House Incorporated; 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

13 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. 13 of the 31 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)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HELPING UP MISSION INC: $122,500 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCBAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER JOHN HOPKINS HEALTH CENTER: $50,000 · OtherBAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER JOHN HOPKINS HEALTH CENTERTHE SOUL CENTER: $43,500 · OtherTHE SOUL CENTERMERCY HEALTH CENTER: $40,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH CENTERSPIRIT SICKLE CELL SIMPSON UM CHURCH: $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 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF SPIRITUAL CARE: $25,000 · OtherHopeSprings Inc: $22,500 · OtherPATHWAY FORWARD ALLEN AME: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR WELL-BEING (LIFE DOULA PROGRAM) CO CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $85,650 · Other+8 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUN…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 ME…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 & ShelterSolid Rock Ministries Trading As Solid Rock and Redeemer Assembly of God: $10,000 · Religion
Other$549,150Human Services$81,250Health$47,500Housing & Shelter$15,000Religion$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 budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $122,500 over 7y, 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 budgetSolid Rock Ministries Trading As Solid Rock and Redeemer Assembly of God: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetON OUR OWN OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 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 Solid Rock Ministries Trading As Solid Rock and Redeemer Assembly of God ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds ON OUR OWN OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY ↗

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.

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

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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 Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Spirituality and Medicine Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc: 0% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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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