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· Private foundation

Helen Pumphrey Denit Tr Char & Educ Purposes

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Human Services$364kHealth$309kArts & Culture$290kEducation$200kFood & Nutrition$185kReligion$125kPublic Benefit$120kPhilanthropy$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $290k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDSTAR MONTGOMERY MEDICAL CENTER$40,000
WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$30,000
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$25,000
HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND$20,000
BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY$20,000
WE WILL ALL RISE$20,000
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK$15,000
SHEPERD'S CLINIC$15,000
THE CHIME FOUNDATION$15,000
CLAY POTS$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM MARYLAND$10,000
SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE SEI$10,000
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA$10,000
CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOSTER THE FAMILY: $10k → 12%FENWICK FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $30k → 9%GIRLS WHO CODE: $10k → 17%MARYLAND CASA ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES OF: $30k → 11%THE CHIME FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%ART WITH A HEART: $10k → 19%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $15k → 19%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $15k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $20k → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $15k → 19%MARIAN HOUSE INC: $10k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $5k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$997k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
53

Total granted

$1.4M
$792k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+7%

Still filing today

70%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • HU
    HELPING UP MISSION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +31%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +18%
  • MA
    MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • AT
    ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +3%
  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -93%
  • CS
    CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -7%

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
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
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
3
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
4
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Inc

Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…

5
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
6
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
7
Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health
8
Baltimore Area Health Education Center

To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…

Health
9
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…

10
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
11
Maryland Center On Economic Policy Inc

The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.

Social Science
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Circle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foster the Family. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr18%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr18%25%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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
13%
3,112/24,091

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

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

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 103 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEORGE WASHINGTON — $120,000 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTONHELPING UP MISSION INC — $95,000 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCIndividual grant recipient — $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $85,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCMEDSTAR MONTGOMERY MEDICAL CENTER — $83,333 · OtherMEDSTAR MONTGOMERY MEDICAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $66,667 · Other+53 more — $872,328 · Other+53 moreMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $85,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ACADE…THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE …CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ALLIA…CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE A…BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSE…EVERYMAN THEATRE INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYMAN THEAT…+5 more — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $30,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S …FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA — $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND…MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesMARYLAND F…MARIAN HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMARIAN HOU…THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE …CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR…THE CHIMES FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHIMES…ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMARYLAND CASA ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesArt With a Heart Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER THE FAMILY — $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFENWICK FOUNDATION — $8,750 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesWE WILL ALL RISE — $40,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LAB — $30,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationThe George Washington University — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationSOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION — $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN — $10,000 · EducationARTS EVERY DAY INC — $10,000 · EducationENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP — $65,000 · Community ImprovementNPOWER INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES — $40,000 · HealthHUMANIM INC — $25,000 · HealthMARYLAND FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRY — $18,500 · Health
Other$1,412,328Arts & Culture$320,000Human Services$238,750Education$185,000Philanthropy$120,000Community Improvement$115,000Health$83,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP — $65,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWE WILL ALL RISE — $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBYTE BACK — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSisters Circle Inc — $32,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNPOWER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANIM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe George Washington University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMARYLAND FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRY — $18,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHIMES FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERDS CLINIC INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADELANTE LATINA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCLAY POTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetARTS EVERY DAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 IncMD71.8× affinity35 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 · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation

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 Helen Pumphrey Denit Tr Char & Educ Purposes 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 · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc100% of income from government
  • Maryland Family Network Inc66% of income from government
  • Maryland Casa Association Inc60% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc43% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc40% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc36% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc33% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc29% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp28% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc19% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc18% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc10% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Services of Centra10% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences9% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Arts Center Inc7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc6% of income from government
  • Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp6% of income from government
  • Arts Every Day Inc4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art4% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc4% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc3% of income from government
  • Wide Angle Youth Media Inc3% of income from government
  • The Women's Housing Coalition Inc2% of income from government
  • Marian House Inc2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc2% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc1% of income from government
  • Humanim Inc1% of income from government
  • Olney Theatre Corporation Inc0% of income from government
  • Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
19report 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, 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 103 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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