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Gordon Croft Foundation Inc at a glance

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Gordon Croft Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$497k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$155k
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 2024.

Education$809kFood & Nutrition$332kYouth Development$328kHealth$276kHuman Services$240kInternational$113kEnvironment$102kRecreation & Sports$94kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Special Olympics Maryland$10,000
Southern Maryland Food Bank$10,000
Health Partners Inc$10,000
The Loyola School$10,000
Food for The Hungry$10,000
St Ignatius Loyola Academy$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA of Central Maryland: $25k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $24k → 11%YMCA of Central Maryland: $20k → 11%YMCA of Central Maryland: $20k → 11%YMCA of Central Maryland: $10k → 11%House of Ruth Maryland: $26k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $20k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $20k → 19%House of Ruth Maryland: $20k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $2k → 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

NH
NY
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 51 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
60

Total granted

$2.3M
$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+20%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $324k · revenue +531%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $206k · revenue +78%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • RP
    ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • JH
    John Hopkins University
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
3
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health
4
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
5
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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6
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

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,…

Health
7
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

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…

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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…

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11
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

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…

Health
12
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
56/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Meals on Wheels: $140,000 · OtherMeals on WheelsJohn Hopkins Inst Applied Economics: $120,000 · OtherJohn Hopkins Inst Applied EconomicsJOHNS HOPKINS INST APPLIED ECONOMICS: $115,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS INST APPLIED ECONOMICSTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $104,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCSt Paul's School: $70,000 · OtherSt Paul's SchoolSouthern Maryland Food Bank: $49,000 · OtherSt Ignatius Loyola Academy: $45,250 · OtherTHE LOYOLA SCHOOL INC: $45,000 · OtherHealth Partners Inc: $40,000 · OtherFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $54,000 · OtherTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Other+77 more: $359,966 · Other+77 moreCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $280,200 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SOUTH…ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationROLAND PARK COUN…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UN…+7 more: $12,675 · EducationTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $324,185 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND G…+3 more: $2,258 · Youth DevelopmentST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $205,795 · HealthST JUDE CH…GLOBAL GENES: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $4,700 · HealthYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $99,130 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $87,746 · Human ServicesCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $41,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $38,100 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc: $11,965 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $9,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $42,250 · Recreation & SportsHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $29,500 · Recreation & SportsLIONS CAMP MERRICK INC: $20,200 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $2,075 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,197,216Education$362,875Youth Development$326,443Health$220,495Human Services$186,876Environment$102,065Recreation & Sports$94,025

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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $324,185 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $280,200 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $205,795 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $104,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $99,130 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $87,746 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $54,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $42,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Partners Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $38,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $29,958 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $29,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS CAMP MERRICK INC: $20,200 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFR MICHAEL MISSION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCharles Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc: $14,200 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $11,965 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GENES: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $7,903 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER4LIFEMD Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $6,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND STATE BOYCHOIR INC: $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $1,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF CHARLES COUNTY INC: $620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAPLATA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $600 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…T Rowe Price Program …France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…Charles County Charit…The Kahlert Foundatio…The Abell Foundation …Thomas Wilson Sanitar…Linehan Family Founda…Annie E Casey Foundat…Campbell Foundation I…Dr Frank C Marino Fou…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gordon Croft Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon Croft Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 120 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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