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· 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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.2M
$30,866
Median grant
4
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION WARM INC: $70k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $279k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $55k → 22%THE BLACK MALE YOGA INITIATIVE INC: $150k → 6%CITY OF REFUGE BMORE INC: $39k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $60k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $123k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%OPERATION WARM INC: $92k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 11%OPERATION WARM INC: $84k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $38k → 22%Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $55k → 11%Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $45k → 11%KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $102k → 11%KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $35k → 11%KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $35k → 11%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $80k → 11%OBASI FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 11%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $60k → 19%WOMEN IN TRANSISTION: $35k → 19%ACTIVE ACHIEVERS INC: $125k → 19%ACTIVE ACHIEVERS INC: $46k → 19%THE OPPORTUNITY GROWTH CENTER: $45k → 19%ACTIVE ACHIEVERS INC: $43k → 19%ART WITH A HEART: $48k → 19%ART WITH A HEART: $35k → 19%ART WITH A HEART: $30k → 19%ART WITH A HEART: $30k → 19%BON SECOURS OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $61k → 19%BON SECOURS OF MARYLAN FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 19%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $50k → 19%BON SECOURS OF MARYLAN FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 19%BON SECOURS OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 19%BALTIMORE URBAN LEADERESHIP FOUNDATION: $35k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $110k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALT: $80k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $80k → 19%29TH ST COMMUNITY CTR: $52k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALT: $50k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $50k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $50k → 19%LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE: $86k → 19%LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE: $86k → 19%LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE: $72k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $35k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 146 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
105

Total granted

$32M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+28%

Still filing today

84%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $831k 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +51%
  • E
    ELEV8BALTIMOREINC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +512%
  • MP
    MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2021 · $486k · revenue +18%
  • BB
    BRIDGES BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue -74%
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE CHANCERY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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
Baltimore Corps Inc

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…

Employment
2
Baltimore International Academy West Inc

Baltimore International Academy-West is committed to providing a rigorous academiclearning environment that challenges all students to achieve our language immersion(Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, & French) and International…

Education
3
Baltimore International Academy Inc

Baltimore International Academy-East is committed to providing a rigorous academiclearning environment that challenges all students to achieve our language immersion(Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, & French) and International…

—
4
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc

Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city. the fund awards grants to community-based, youth-serving organizations and provides capacity-building and technical assistance to…

Youth Development
5
Baltimore Lab School Inc

Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…

Education
6
The Ingenuity Project Inc

The mission of The Ingenuity Project is to prepare and launch the next diverse generation of nationally competitive STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) leaders from Baltimore City Public Schools.

Education
7
Baltimore Design School Inc

Baltimore design school fosters creativity and develops the academic and critical thinking skills of 6th through 12th grade students and prepares them for admission to college and careers in the design fields of architecture, fashion, and…

Education
8
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
9
Kipp Baltimore Inc

The mission of kipp baltimore is to create and operate public schools in baltimore city that lead students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and a diversity of skill levels to attend and succeed in four-year colleges.

Education
10
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
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12
Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Art Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

215 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
74
Early backer (in before they grew)
203/215
Grantees still filing
141/215
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,024,416 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYELEV8BALTIMOREINC: $1,764,266 · EducationELEV8BALTIMOREINCDENT EDUCATION INC: $858,500 · EducationDENT EDUCATION INCUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $660,050 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medical Sys…THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $485,938 · EducationPOP INC: $430,000 · Education+36 more: $4,632,848 · Education+36 moreUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $2,510,524 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $1,167,400 · OtherMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORKBALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $468,851 · Other+73 more: $6,998,845 · Other+73 moreOperation Warm Inc: $708,500 · Human ServicesOperation War…ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC: $485,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE…Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $331,000 · Human ServicesBon Secours B…LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE: $243,757 · Human ServicesLETS THRIVE B…Art With a Heart Inc: $233,182 · Human ServicesArt With a He…ACTIVE ACHIEVERS: $228,200 · Human ServicesACTIVE ACHIEV…KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $217,070 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $192,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $180,000 · Human ServicesThe Black Male Yoga Initiative Inc: $175,000 · Human ServicesObasi Foundation Inc: $173,365 · Human Services+21 more: $952,709 · Human Services+21 moreHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $409,452 · Youth DevelopmentHOLISTIC LI…MTM FOUNDATION INC: $264,938 · Youth DevelopmentMTM FOUNDAT…B-360 Baltimore Inc: $255,950 · Youth DevelopmentB-360 Balti…BMORE EMPOWERED INC: $243,189 · Youth DevelopmentBMORE EMPOW…Natural Born Champions Inc: $224,736 · Youth DevelopmentNatural Bor…TEAM OF WE HAPPYVILLE: $208,400 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM OF WE …THE BE ORG INC: $207,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BE ORG …HEARTSMILES INC: $173,000 · Youth DevelopmentAZIZA PE&CE: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNIQUE FABRICS NONPROFIT INC: $160,994 · Youth DevelopmentMEDICAL EDUCATION RESOURCES INITIATIVE FOR TEENS INC: $132,206 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT PNEUMA INC: $130,000 · Youth Development+17 more: $1,112,342 · Youth Development+17 moreTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,075,781 · Employment+1 more: $52,765 · EmploymentFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,279,709 · Community ImprovementBANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP: $250,575 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $134,166 · Community ImprovementREQUITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $91,901 · Community ImprovementARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $354,520 · Arts & CultureACCESS ART INC: $325,448 · Arts & CultureWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC: $268,890 · Arts & CultureISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc: $198,953 · Arts & CultureRISE Arts Center of Baltimore Inc: $97,205 · Arts & CultureMUSE 360 INCORPORATED: $85,000 · Arts & CultureEUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE & CULTURAL CENTER: $60,000 · Arts & CultureWOMBWORK PRODUCTIONS INC: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $145,654 · Arts & Culture
Education$10,856,018Other$11,145,620Human Services$4,120,283Youth Development$3,687,707Employment$2,128,546Community Improvement$1,831,351Arts & Culture$1,590,670

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 ↗

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 F…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…Family League of Balt…T Rowe Price Foundati…France-Merrick Founda…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Harry and Jeanett…Baltimore Children an…Baltimore Civic Fund …The Morris Goldseker …West Baltimore Renais…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fund for Educational Excellence Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for Educational Excellence Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 570%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
57get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

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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