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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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
74
Grants FY2025
97
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,866
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,999,530
Organizations funded a year
51 to 101
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$35M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Fund for Educational Excellence Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving60$6.0M12%
FY202497$6.0M28%
FY202399$5.7M24%
FY202280$6.6M43%
FY202165$3.9M29%
FY2020101$2.8M58%
FY201954$1.7M37%
FY201851$1.7M43%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$12MYouth Development$6.8MHuman Services$3.6MCommunity Improvement$3.3MEmployment$2.9MRecreation & Sports$1.7MArts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.4MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Maryland College Park$2,510,5245n/a
The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc$2,075,78150%
Johns Hopkins University$2,024,41660%
Elev8baltimoreinc$1,764,266520%
Fusion Partnership Inc$1,279,70994%
Maryland Philanthropy Network$1,167,40068%
Dent Education Inc$858,500752%
Operation Warm Inc$708,50060%
University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc$660,05014%
The Maryland School for the Blind$485,93811%
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All grantees of Fund for Educational Excellence Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Maryland College Park$2,510,5245n/a
The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc$2,075,78150%
Johns Hopkins University$2,024,41660%
Elev8baltimoreinc$1,764,266520%
Fusion Partnership Inc$1,279,70994%
Maryland Philanthropy Network$1,167,40068%
Dent Education Inc$858,500752%
Operation Warm Inc$708,50060%
University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc$660,05014%
The Maryland School for the Blind$485,93811%
St Vincent de Paul of Baltimore Inc$485,00080%
Baltimore City Public Schools$468,8516n/a
Pop Inc$430,000772%
Holistic Life Foundation Inc$409,45277%
Restorative Response Baltimore Inc$365,000312%
Arts for Learning Maryland Inc$354,52051%
Bridges Baltimore Inc$350,00013%
Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc$331,00062%
Access Art Inc$325,448812%
St Francis Neighborhood Center$305,50073%
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc$300,54551%
Living Classrooms Foundation$300,17581%
Civic Works Inc$285,00071%
Backyard Basecamp Inc$277,50035%
Wide Angle Youth Media Inc$268,89085%
Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation$265,55271%
Mtm Foundation Inc$264,938428%
The Village Learning Place Inc$261,89795%
B-360 Baltimore Inc$255,95024%
Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp$250,57566%
Archdiocese of Baltimore Chancery Inc$250,0001n/a
Parks and People Inc$247,76382%
Strong City Baltimore Inc$246,63541%
Soccer Without Borders$245,50083%
Lets Thrive Baltimore$243,757316%
Bmore Empowered Inc$243,189416%
Art With a Heart Inc$233,18282%
Active Achievers$228,200427%
Bard College$225,00010%
Natural Born Champions Inc$224,736210%
Keys Empowers Inc$217,07053%
Corner Team Inc$215,443425%
Team of We Happyville$208,400239%
The Be Org Inc$207,500320%
Calvert School Incorporated$205,00030%
1012 Sports Inc$201,870416%
ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc$198,953259%
Code in the Schools Inc$195,00065%
Digital Harbor Foundation$195,00068%
Springboard Collaborative$192,50040%
The Seed School of Maryland$190,00021%
The Park School of Baltimore Inc$189,00040%
Greater Baltimore Church of Christ Inc$184,8342n/a
Bryn Mawr School$184,5004n/a
The Mount Washington School$181,5142n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc$180,00070%
The Black Male Yoga Initiative Inc$175,0002n/a
Obasi Foundation Inc$173,365254%
Heartsmiles Inc$173,00044%
OUT For JUSTICE INC$170,00022%
Public Justice Center Inc$170,00024%
Gilman School Incorporated$169,50040%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$167,81410%
Aziza PE&CE$165,000315%
Cloverdale Ac Bba Inc$163,657243%
Full Gospel Fellowship Church of Deliverance$162,7663n/a
Unique Fabrics Nonprofit Inc$160,994343%
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc$154,37322%
Patterson Park Public Charter School Fund Inc$151,250545%
Intersection of Change Inc$145,00074%
The St Pauls Schools Inc$143,0003n/a
Roland Park Country School Inc$140,00040%
From Prison Cells to Phd Inc$139,71254%
No Boundaries Coalition Inc$134,16635%
McDonogh School Incorporated$132,50020%
Medical Education Resources Initiative for Teens Inc$132,206726%
Project Pneuma Inc$130,00045%
Black Girls Cook$123,500434%
Women in Transition Inc$120,000334%
Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc$115,00033%
Casa Inc$111,92550%
Elijahs Blessing Community Service Center Inc$111,900321%
Cultivating & Embracing Change Inc$110,000330%
Maryvale Preparatory School$106,0002n/a
The Hampden Family Center Inc$105,00046%
W O M a N Inc$101,2123n/a
Baltimore Squashwise Inc$100,00044%
Humanim Inc$100,00030%
Associated Catholic Charities Inc$100,00030%
The Boys' Latin School of Maryland Inc$99,00020%
RISE Arts Center of Baltimore Inc$97,205436%
Western High School Foundation Inc$96,4771n/a
The Baltimore Youth Alliance Inc$95,000413%
The Nolita Project Inc$89,276255%
Community Law in Action Inc$88,000611%
Baltimore Montessori Inc$85,00031%
Next One Up Foundation Inc$85,00043%
Muse 360 Incorporated$85,000232%
Mentoring Mentors Inc$80,174413%
I Am Mentality Inc$80,000114%
Coach G Academy Inc$80,000218%
Afya Baltimore Inc$79,80020%
City Neighbors Foundation Inc$75,00046%
Requity Foundation Inc$75,00022%
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Diocese of Md$73,9822n/a
Momcares$73,083213%
Excellence & Ambitions Inc$72,760226%
Catherines Family and Youth Services$70,04947%
Youth of the Diaspora$70,000165%
Youth as Resources Inc$65,694218%
Safe Alternative Foundation for Education Inc$65,00038%
Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door$65,0002n/a
The Bell Foundation Inc$65,00020%
Koinonia Baptist Church$65,0004n/a
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore$65,00031%
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc$63,00013%
One More One Less Mentoring Inc$62,387219%
Green Street Academy Foundation Inc$61,1252n/a
Bluebird Education Network Inc$60,50320%
Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute & Cultural Center$60,00023%
Beat the Streets Baltimore$60,000345%
Board Room Chess Inc$57,995319%
Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City$57,50040%
St Veronica Roman Cath Congr$57,5003n/a
Beyond the Natural Foundation$56,000311%
Wombwork Productions Inc$55,00022%
Adelante Latina Inc$54,95858%
Peaceplayers International$54,04931%
City of Refuge Baltimore Inc$53,50821%
Social & Economic Empowerment through Knowledge I$52,765330%
29th Street Community Center Inc$51,500113%
Missionfit$50,990318%
Phase 3 Training Corporation$50,00019%
Liberty Grace of God$50,0002n/a
Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc$50,00022%
Maryland New Directions Inc$50,00024%
Community Initiatives$50,00010%
The Maryland Book Bank Inc$50,00011%
Marching Elite Foundation$49,4542n/a
Creative City Public Charter School Foundation Inc$49,30731%
Community Mediation Program Inc$48,00024%
Im Still Standing Community Corporation$46,33229%
The Loyola School Inc$45,5191n/a
The Og Center$45,0001n/a
The Complete Player Charity Ltd$44,51715%
University of Maryland Foundation Inc$44,24810%
R&H Family and Youth Services Inc$43,4051n/a
Joy Baltimore Corp$40,0002n/a
Camp Puhtok for Boys and Girls Inc$39,50031%
Active Social Communities Inc$37,23021%
Anetrice House Inc$36,7951n/a
Brittany K Booker Foundation Inc$36,7502n/a
Central Baltimore Partnership Inc$36,15411%
Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy$35,0001n/a
East Baltimore Community School Inc$35,00020%
Sisters Circle Inc$35,00022%
National Aquarium Inc$35,00030%
The Downtown Sailing Center Inc$35,00022%
Learning Undefeated Inc$35,00021%
Center for Technology Access and Trng$32,768213%
Southwest Baltimore Charter School Inc$32,50030%
Paul's Place Inc$30,00011%
Archbishop Borders School Inc$30,0001n/a
Girls Getting Better Foundati$30,0001n/a
Higher Achievement Program Inc$30,00010%
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc$30,00030%
Family League of Baltimore City Inc$30,00010%
Baltimore Outreach Services Inc$29,93013%
Cooperative Comm Dev Inc$27,3751n/a
Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Cen$26,99231%
Travis Manion Foundation$25,31010%
Glsen Inc$25,00010%
Baltimore Beat Inc$25,00013%
Safe and Sound Baltimore's Campaign for our Children Inc$25,00013%
Weekend Backpacks Baltimore Inc$25,00012%
Youth Empowerment Society Inc$25,000114%
Arabber Preservation Society Inc$25,0001n/a
RAW Trust Inc$25,000164%
Center for Urban Families Inc$25,00011%
The Morgan State University Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Child First Authority Inc$24,50020%
Mindful Mentors Inc$22,600178%
Moving History Inc$21,20026%
Roberta's House Inc$20,0001n/a
Green Street Academy Inc$20,00020%
Baltimore Urban League Inc$20,00012%
Freestate Justice Inc$20,0001n/a
Kaboom Inc$20,00010%
Mother Seton Academy Inc$20,0001n/a
Helping Givers Give$19,5441n/a
City Neighbors Hamilton Inc$17,88230%
Baltimore Economic Advancement Movement Inc$17,7501n/a
Uempower of Maryland Inc$15,00015%
40 West Assistance & Referral Center Inc$15,000118%
Fishes & Loaves Inc$15,0001n/a
Empowerment Temple Inc$15,0001n/a
An End to Ignorance Inc$15,00011%
Kingdom Life Church Apostolic$15,0001n/a
Church of the Guardian Angel$15,0001n/a
For My Kidz Inc$15,00014%
Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood Inc$15,00015%
Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc$15,00010%
So What Else Inc$15,00011%
Teach for America Inc$15,00010%
Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc$15,00010%
Manna House Inc$15,00011%
Heartsmiles LLC$15,0002n/a
The Movement Team$15,00012%
Playworks Education Energized$15,00010%
Hungry Harvest LLC$15,0001n/a
Baltimore Steam Inc$15,000129%
Thrive Arts$15,0001n/a
4MyCity Inc$15,00010%
Lazarus Rite$15,0001n/a
Harlem Park Community Development Corporation$15,000110%
Adopt a Block Inc$15,0001n/a
Open Works Inc$15,00011%
Bit Community Center Inc$15,00015%
Outcast Food Network$14,1001n/a
Jewish Community Services Inc$13,44010%
Greenmount West Community Center Foundation Inc$13,00015%
Broken Wall Project$12,0001n/a
St Frances Academy$12,0001n/a
Action in Maturity Inc$12,00011%
First Mount Calvary Baptist Church$12,0001n/a
Macedonia Life Community Development Corporation$10,0001n/a
Care Community Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Center for Supportive Schools Inc$10,00010%
Sisters Saving the City$10,0001n/a
Baltimore Clayworks Inc$10,00011%
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc$10,00010%
Childrens Peace Center Inc$10,0001n/a
The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Foundation and Alumni Association Inc$10,00011%
Let's Go Boys and Girls Inc$10,00011%
Athlife Foundation Inc$10,00014%
Baltimore Urban Debate League Inc$10,00011%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America$10,0001n/a
Northbay Education Inc$9,1001n/a
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers$8,00010%
Preston Mitchum Jr Found$7,5751n/a
The Maryland Spca Inc$7,50010%
Medfield Heights Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization$7,2491n/a
The Midtown Academy Inc$5,50010%
The Tahirih Justice Center$5,00010%
Health Care for the Homeless Inc$5,00010%
Drink at the Well Inc$5,00012%
Govans Ecumenical Development Corp$5,00010%
Nueva Vida Inc$5,00011%
The First Tee of Greater Baltimore Inc$5,00011%
St Ambrose Housing Aid Center Inc$5,00010%
Black Mental Health Alliance for Education and Consultation Inc$5,0001n/a
Maryland Youth and the Law Inc$5,00011%
Beta Alpha Lambda Inc$5,0001n/a
Fayette Street Outreach$5,0001n/a
Baltimore City College$5,0001n/a
Creative Alliance Inc$5,00010%
Christ United Methodist Church$5,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fund for Educational Excellence Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 25 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Urban Alliance Foundation Inc: $2,075,781 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $2,024,416 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElev8baltimoreinc: $1,764,266 over 5y, 20% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $1,279,709 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetMaryland Philanthropy Network: $1,167,400 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetDent Education Inc: $858,500 over 7y, 52% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $708,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $660,050 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Maryland School for the Blind: $485,938 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul of Baltimore Inc: $485,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPop Inc: $430,000 over 7y, 72% of budgetHolistic Life Foundation Inc: $409,452 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetRestorative Response Baltimore Inc: $365,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetArts for Learning Maryland Inc: $354,520 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBridges Baltimore Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $331,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAccess Art Inc: $325,448 over 8y, 12% of budgetSt Francis Neighborhood Center: $305,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetBaltimore Curriculum Project Inc: $300,545 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLiving Classrooms Foundation: $300,175 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCivic Works Inc: $285,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBackyard Basecamp Inc: $277,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetWide Angle Youth Media Inc: $268,890 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetHarlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation: $265,552 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMtm Foundation Inc: $264,938 over 4y, 28% of budgetThe Village Learning Place Inc: $261,897 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetB-360 Baltimore Inc: $255,950 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBanner Neighborhoods Community Corp: $250,575 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetParks and People Inc: $247,763 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetStrong City Baltimore Inc: $246,635 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSoccer Without Borders: $245,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetLets Thrive Baltimore: $243,757 over 3y, 16% of budgetBmore Empowered Inc: $243,189 over 4y, 16% of budgetArt With a Heart Inc: $233,182 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetActive Achievers: $228,200 over 4y, 27% of budgetBard College: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Born Champions Inc: $224,736 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetKeys Empowers Inc: $217,070 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCorner Team Inc: $215,443 over 4y, 25% of budgetTeam of We Happyville: $208,400 over 2y, 39% of budgetThe Be Org Inc: $207,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetCalvert School Incorporated: $205,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget1012 Sports Inc: $201,870 over 4y, 16% of budgetISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc: $198,953 over 2y, 59% of budgetCode in the Schools Inc: $195,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetDigital Harbor Foundation: $195,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetSpringboard Collaborative: $192,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Seed School of Maryland: $190,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 196.

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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 Foundation IncMD186.9× affinity129 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Fund for Educational Excellence Inc

How much does Fund for Educational Excellence Inc give?
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc reported 74 grants totaling $6,044,945 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 101 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fund for Educational Excellence Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Youth Development (19%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Fund for Educational Excellence Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Maryland College Park ($2.5M), The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc ($2.1M), Johns Hopkins University ($2.0M).
Does Fund for Educational Excellence Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Educational Excellence Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc.
Where is Fund for Educational Excellence Inc based?
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc is based in MD.

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 262 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 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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