· Private foundation
Harry L Gladding Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS | $7,000 |
| EVERYMAN THEATRE | $5,000 |
| CREATIVE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Arts for Learning Maryland | $5,000 |
| BMA - Baltimore Music Arts | $4,000 |
| GBCA - GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,500 |
| GIL SANDLER FUND | $1,000 |
| AEMS | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREA | $1,000 |
| PEALE CENTER | $1,000 |
| BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- RPROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +59%
- NANATIONAL AQUARIUM INC2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +48%
- MNMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- PTPARKWAY THEATREone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- AEARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +38%
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.
The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
To promote theater performances in baltimore city
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
The baltimore office of promotion & the arts (bopa) was created in 2002 with a mission to make baltimore a more vibrant and creative city. bopa serves as baltimore city's designated arts council and film office and coordinates a wide…
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…
To build an inclusive community by connecting diverse groups of artists and residents of baltimore county and beyond.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Stage Associates Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gil Sandler Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIL SANDLER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENMOUNT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Single Carrot Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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 · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund 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 Harry L Gladding 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.
- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% 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.