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James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $388k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $662k
- $250k+1 grant · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC | $252,563 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $232,150 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY | $108,270 |
| T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC | $102,004 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY INC | $56,506 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC | $55,096 |
| KIPP BALTIMORE INC | $55,096 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC | $52,920 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $49,586 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $25,000 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC | $25,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $25,000 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 49% of James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $802k · revenue +57%- FFFIRST FRUITS FARM INC2× · 2018–2023 · $516k · revenue +41%
- USUnited States Ski Team Foundation4× · 2017–2021 · $490k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $508k
- GSGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $380k · revenue +45%
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…
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, 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 Maryland Philanthropy Network and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Sellers Hall. 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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 101 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Sellers Hall ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Summit Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION 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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Linehan Family 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 James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation 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.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
- Project Plase Inc — 39% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Jubilee Baltimore Inc — 16% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Baltimore Station Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Women's Housing Coalition Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation 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.
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