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Golfers' Charitable Association Inc

To positively impact youth within the baltimore area by making contributions that fund worthwhile projects through charitable organizations.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Youth Development$357kEducation$80kPhilanthropy$45kHuman Services$34kRecreation & Sports$33kHealth$21kCrime & Legal$19k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $85,576 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $136,993 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,417 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$843k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTHER SETON ACADEMY$9,356
WOMEN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE$8,500
CHRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$7,800
ST IGNATIUS ACADEMY$7,500
BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT$7,500
2ND CHANCES MINISTRY WORLDWIDE$7,100
THE LOYOLA SCHOOL$6,750
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$6,500
BROWN MEMORIAL TUTORING PROGRAM$6,000
COMFORT CASES$5,500
THE FIRST TEE OF BALTIMORE$5,070
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMFORT CASES: $6k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $8k → 11%BON SECOURS HOSPITAL: $6k → 19%THE CHILDREN'S GUILD: $10k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S GUILD: $9k → 11%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $10k → 11%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $8k → 11%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $6k → 11%2ND CHANCES MINISTRY WORLDWIDE: $7k → 19%2ND CHANCES MINISTRY WORLDWIDE: $6k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$442k · 17 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$442k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • WE
    WOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +84%
  • TW
    The William S Baer School
    4× · 2018–2022 · $38k · revenue +327%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    3× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • UB
    UMAR BOXING PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • AS
    ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +44%
  • SB
    SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +55%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
2
Baltimore Montessori Inc

To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.

Education
3
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…

Education
4
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
5
Baltimore Sports Academy Inc

Baltimore Sports Academy serves under resourced communities by providing elementary-aged youth access to summer camps, after school programs, and sports leagues to develop strong bodies, minds and spirits. We assist youth to have success…

Recreation & Sports
6
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
7
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development
9
Bridges Baltimore Inc

Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.

Education
10
The Waldorf School of Baltimore Inc

The waldorf school of baltimore educates and inspires children to think, act, and feel with depth, imagination, and purpose.

11
Mckim Community Association Inc

Provides services to youth and families in low income area of baltimore city. services include after-school programming, organized sports activities, family support, and summer camp.

12
North Baltimore Aquatic Club Inc

The north baltimore aquatic club leads the nation in competitive swimming. our diligently designed, professionally coached and internationally renowned program encourages the development of character and self-discipline. these qualities,…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is 2ND Chances Outreach Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr16%25%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr22%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr16%26%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr22%33%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
14%
1,512/11,125

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.

04the grantee network

31 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOTHER SETON ACADEMY INC — $56,153 · OtherMOTHER SETON ACADEMY INCSAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY — $39,242 · OtherSAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMYCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $23,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLSISTERS ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INC — $15,000 · OtherSISTERS ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INCNEW SONG COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC — $9,000 · OtherTHE LOYOLA SCHOOL INC — $6,750 · OtherGRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $8,845 · OtherWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC — $7,560 · Other+3 more — $16,000 · Other+3 moreFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $33,723 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRIST…CASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $24,190 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF BALTIMORE CO…YOUNG LIFE — $21,263 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFENEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATI…UNCUFFED MINISTRIES — $5,961 · Youth DevelopmentUNCUFFED MINISTRIESBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $58,551 · EducationWOMENS EDUCATION …SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $10,820 · EducationSOUTHWEST BALTIMO…LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — $10,500 · EducationLIVING CLASSROOMS…DYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM — $5,697 · EducationDYSLEXIA TUTORING…THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $5,345 · EducationTHE MARYLAND SCHO…BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC — $23,500 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HUNGER…THE CHILDREN'S GUILD INC — $19,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S G…2ND CHANCES OUTREACH MINISTRY — $13,100 · Human Services2ND CHANCES OUTR…SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMP…Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — $7,800 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Chri…Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — $6,319 · Human ServicesBon Secours Balt…COMFORT CASES INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesCOMFORT CASES IN…THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC — $27,140 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST …UMAR BOXING PROGRAM INC — $15,400 · Recreation & SportsUMAR BOXIN…ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES — $11,000 · Recreation & SportsATHLETES S…The William S Baer School — $37,835 · PhilanthropyThe Willi…PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $6,800 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS P…Mt Washington Pediatric Foundation Inc — $5,550 · PhilanthropyMt Washin…CENTER FOR HOPE INC — $12,179 · Crime & LegalNEXUS FAMILY HEALING — $7,305 · Crime & Legal
Other$181,550Youth Development$107,637Education$90,913Human Services$85,219Recreation & Sports$53,540Philanthropy$50,185Crime & Legal$19,484

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $58,551 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe William S Baer School — $37,835 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $33,723 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC — $27,140 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $24,190 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC — $23,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $21,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S GUILD INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC — $12,179 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $10,820 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW SONG COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $8,845 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — $7,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC — $7,560 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEXUS FAMILY HEALING — $7,305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $6,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — $6,319 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNCUFFED MINISTRIES — $5,961 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM — $5,697 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Foundation Inc — $5,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $5,345 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPORTS BOOSTERS OF MARYLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 40% of budget
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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD40.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The O'Neil Family Foundation Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg 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 Golfers' Charitable Association 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • The Maryland School for the Blind47% of income from government
  • Casa of Baltimore County Inc38% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc22% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Design Center Inc14% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation7% of income from government
  • Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc3% of income from government
  • Wide Angle Youth Media Inc3% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc1% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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