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Kenneth S Battye Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels | $300,000 |
| Healthcare for the Homeless | $150,000 |
| THREAD | $125,000 |
| Harford Family House | $110,000 |
| Focusing Philanthropy for Vision to Learn | $100,000 |
| The Loyola School | $100,000 |
| Franciscan Center | $100,000 |
| Our Daily Bread | $100,000 |
| Save The Children | $100,000 |
| The Seed School | $95,969 |
| Turnaround | $90,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $90,000 |
| Paul's Place | $75,000 |
| Dyslexia Tutoring Program | $64,000 |
| Helping up Mission | $60,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
62 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- PPPAUL'S PLACE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +2%
- HCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $837k · revenue +17%
- FCFRANCISCAN CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $709k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- CSCentral Scholarshipone grant, 2018 · $100k
- JAJDC - American Jewish Joint Distributionone grant, 2024 · $50k
- WEWilmer Eye Instituteone grant, 2019 · $50k
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 arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Housing unlimited, inc. is a non-profit dedicated to providing affordable, permanent housing opportunities and independent living for adults in mental health recovery.
Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mosaic Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nick's Place 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 106 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 PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Itineris Inc ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND INC ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NICK'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SHAREBABY INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC NORTHERN CHESAPEAKE REGION INC ↗
- Who funds The Samaritan Community Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
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 · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland 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 Kenneth S Battye Charitable Trust 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.
- Future Harvest Inc — 41% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Turnaround Inc — 18% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Kids Fund Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lori's Hands Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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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