· Private foundation
Gordon Croft Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs Metropolitan Baltimore | $154,770 |
| College of Southern Maryland Foundation | $50,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $35,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $30,036 |
| John Hopkins Inst Applied Economics | $30,000 |
| YMCA of Central Maryland | $25,000 |
| House of Ruth Maryland | $20,000 |
| Tim Tebow Foundation | $15,000 |
| Coastal Conservation Association MD | $11,000 |
| Maryland Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Health Partners Inc | $10,000 |
| The Loyola School | $10,000 |
| St Ignatius Loyola Academy | $10,000 |
| Food for The Hungry | $10,000 |
| Southern Maryland Food Bank | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
51 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE5× · 2020–2024 · $324k · revenue +531%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $206k · revenue +78%- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- RPROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +18%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +20%
- JHJohn Hopkins Universityone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Illuminate the Journey Inc. 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 40 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 120 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
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS CAMP MERRICK INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FR MICHAEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Charles Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GENES ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Charles County Charitable Trust · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Linehan Family Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Campbell Foundation Inc · Dr Frank C Marino 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 Gordon Croft 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.
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% 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
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Jubilee Baltimore Inc — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Maryland State Boychoir Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% 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
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Possabilities Plus Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.