· Private foundation
France-Merrick Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k74 grants · $222k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $765k
- $50k–250k71 grants · $7.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USM - UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION | $305,000 |
| USM - UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY | $300,000 |
| TURNAROUND TUESDAY INC | $300,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $254,500 |
| THE HCH REAL ESTATE COMPANY INC | $250,000 |
| JHU - SCHOOL OF NURSING | $205,000 |
| DRINK AT THE WELL INC | $201,000 |
| PARK WEST HEALTH SYSTEM | $200,000 |
| RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY | $200,000 |
| MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER | $200,000 |
| PIKESVILLE ARMORY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC | $200,000 |
| REBUILD METRO | $150,250 |
| SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND | $150,000 |
| MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
204 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2025, 94 since wound down; 70 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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
- HFHIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +167% · 51% of their budget
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $751k · revenue +16%- BRB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC4× · 2021–2025 · $561k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +23%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $340k
- CWCIVIC WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +35%
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…
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…
Live baltimores mission is to recruit and retain baltimore city residents.
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.
Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…
The mission of baltimore community lending is supporting the revitalization and strengthening of underserved communities in the greater baltimore region through innovative financial solutions and collaborative resources designed to promote…
Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.
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 The Movement Team. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
408 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. 408 of the 600 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 HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD METRO INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP PASQUANEY ↗
- Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DRINK AT THE WELL INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Turnaround Tuesday Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFRO CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HCH REAL ESTATE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Corporation ↗
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: The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Robert W Deutsch 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 France-Merrick Foundation 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Health — 100% of income from government
- Upton Planning Committee Inc — 100% of income from government
- POWER52 Inc — 100% of income from government
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- New Vision House of Hope Inc — 63% of income from government
- Southwest Partnership Inc — 50% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Central Baltimore Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
- Pikesville Armory Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Park West Health System Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Pride of Baltimore Inc — 30% of income from government
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance 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
- Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc — 22% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc — 20% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- New American Community Lending Corporation — 19% of income from government
- Turnaround Inc — 18% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Total Health Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 16% of income from government
- Jubilee Baltimore Inc — 16% of income from government
- Healthy Neighborhoods Inc — 16% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Neighborhood Design Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Parity Baltimore Incorporated — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Episcopal Housing Corporation — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Medical System Inc — 8% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc — 7% of income from government
- 4MyCity Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Assistance Network Inc — 7% of income from government
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp — 6% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Chase Brexton Health Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Beloved Community Services Corporation — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Women's Housing Coalition Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Maryland Patient Safety Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Medical System Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Center On Institutions and Alternatives Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mercy Medical Center — 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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