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Dicarlo Plank 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of DICARLO PLANK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PORT DISCOVERY | $40,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC | $15,473 |
| CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF MARYLAND | $15,000 |
| WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE | $13,793 |
| EAGLES MERE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $11,500 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| IFP FISCAL SPONSORSHIP | $10,000 |
| PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY | $5,155 |
| WYPR | $5,000 |
| SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $601k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SSSANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $924k · revenue +20% · 30% of their budget
- TBTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $838k · revenue +102%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $318k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- P(PEP (PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE)one grant, 2021 · $100k
- BMBig Mouth Productions Incone grant, 2021 · $100k
- LFLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue 0%
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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 Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is War Horse Cities Community Development Corporation 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 37 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 171 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 WAR HORSE CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK BASEBALL LEAGUES INC ↗
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES MERE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION 4 HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD GARDENS STRATFORD GREEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
- Who funds HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Downtown Sailing Center 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 · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter 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 Dicarlo Plank 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.
- Upton Planning Committee Inc — 100% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Parent Encouragement Program Inc — 22% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 16% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- People Encouraging People Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 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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