· Public charity
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc
We expand resources, identify and accelerate solutions, and recognize excellence so that all children in baltimore city public schools experience an effective and adequate education.
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 $10k14 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $1,999,530 |
| U OF MD MEDICINE FOUNDATION | $660,050 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY R24 | $294,832 |
| OPERATION WARM INC | $279,400 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $220,692 |
| ELEV8 BALTIMORE INC | $175,000 |
| B-360 BALTIMORE INC | $155,950 |
| THE BE ORG | $138,500 |
| TEAM OF WE HAPPYVILLE | $102,476 |
| LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE | $85,750 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALT | $80,000 |
| CORNER TEAM INC | $73,002 |
| NO BOUNDARIES COALITION | $67,083 |
| BRYN MAWR SCHOOL | $66,000 |
| BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT | $62,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
146 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $831k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +51%- EELEV8BALTIMOREINC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +512%
- MPMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2021 · $486k · revenue +18%
- BBBRIDGES BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue -74%
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE CHANCERY INCone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Girls Cook. 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 17 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
215 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 215 of the 262 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 THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELEV8BALTIMOREINC ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DENT EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds POP INC ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE RESPONSE BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ART INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Backyard Basecamp Inc ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MTM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds B-360 Baltimore Inc ↗
- Who funds BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds BMORE EMPOWERED INC ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE ACHIEVERS ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Natural Born Champions 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 · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · West Baltimore Renaissance 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 Fund for Educational Excellence 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.
- Baltimore Urban League Inc — 100% of income from government
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- The Maryland School for the Blind — 47% 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
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Cen — 17% of income from government
- Community Mediation Program Inc — 17% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- 4MyCity Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Complete Player Charity Ltd — 6% of income from government
- Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp — 6% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Restorative Response Baltimore Inc — 4% of income from government
- Access Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
- Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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.