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Lockhart Vaughan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$177k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$7.9MEnvironment$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.2MYouth Development$1.2MArts & Culture$825kScience & Tech$467kHousing & Shelter$445kReligion$412kOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.3M
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC$176,522
EARTHJUSTICE$75,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$75,000
THREAD INC$75,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$75,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - BALTIMORE$60,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE$60,000
BLUE WATER BALTIMORE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION$50,000
CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE$50,000
ST JAMES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC$50,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$50,000
STRONG SCHOOLS MARYLAND$50,000
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 (FY17–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 22%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $20k → 19%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 19%TURNAROUND INC: $25k → 11%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 19%DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 19%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 19%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 19%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%29TH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 19%29TH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%29TH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 19%UPTON PLANNING COMMITTEE INC: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Lockhart Vaughan 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.

Lockhart Vaughan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 118 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

118 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
67

Total granted

$16M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $706k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & 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

  • EP
    ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $527k · revenue +37%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $448k · revenue +53%
  • KB
    KIPP BALTIMORE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $436k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • WD
    Well Done Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +187%
  • HU
    HELPING UP MISSION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $85k · revenue -36%
  • E
    EARTHJUSTICE
    one grant, 2024 · $75k

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
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
3
Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc

Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.

Human Services
4
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…

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5
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
6
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

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7
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc

Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city. the fund awards grants to community-based, youth-serving organizations and provides capacity-building and technical assistance to…

Youth Development
8
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
9
Baltimore Green Space

Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.

Environment
10
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
11
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
12
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr18%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr18%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/137
the rest of the field
13%
3,108/24,026

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.

05the grantee network

129 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. 129 of the 202 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/129
Grantees still filing
81/129
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $400,000 · OtherTALMUDICAL ACADEMY — $294,029 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE — $290,000 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $313,753 · Other+110 more — $7,162,046 · Other+110 moreENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $527,310 · EducationENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF B…Teach for America Inc — $520,000 · EducationTeach for America IncCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE — $461,655 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND B…KIPP BALTIMORE INC — $436,473 · EducationKIPP BALTIMORE INCTHE LITERACY LAB — $320,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LABCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC — $290,000 · EducationCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INCCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $277,960 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATEDTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC — $276,000 · EducationTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INCThe Ingenuity Project Inc — $275,000 · EducationThe Ingenuity Project IncBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC — $195,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $176,522 · EducationTHE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC — $170,000 · Education+19 more — $807,678 · Education+19 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $448,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BA…BLUE WATER BALTIMORE — $430,000 · EnvironmentBLUE WATER BA…EARTHJUSTICE — $195,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $170,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL…BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC — $156,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE TRE…Climate Access Fund Corporation — $100,000 · EnvironmentWell Done Foundation Inc — $100,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND — $98,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Patterson Park Inc — $87,500 · EnvironmentGENERATION180 — $80,000 · Environment+7 more — $219,774 · Environment+7 moreMaryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools Inc — $150,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC — $142,000 · Community ImprovementPIGTOWN MAIN STREET INC — $130,000 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC — $105,000 · Community ImprovementMARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS — $85,000 · Community Improvement4MyCity Inc — $60,000 · Community ImprovementREBUILD METRO INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementREQUITY FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Community Improvement+6 more — $110,000 · Community ImprovementTHREAD INC — $395,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $173,000 · Youth DevelopmentLET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT PNEUMA INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMentoring Mentors Inc — $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $13,960 · Youth DevelopmentBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $210,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC — $61,520 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYMAN THEATRE INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterGARWYN OAKS NORTHWEST HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER INC — $95,000 · Housing & ShelterFUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterST JAMES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE BALTIMORE INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterUnity Properties Inc — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$8,459,828Education$4,733,598Environment$2,084,274Community Improvement$907,000Youth Development$821,960Arts & Culture$681,520Housing & Shelter$425,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $527,310 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $520,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE — $461,655 over 8y, 14% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $448,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP BALTIMORE INC — $436,473 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBLUE WATER BALTIMORE — $430,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetTHREAD INC — $395,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $320,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $313,753 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC — $290,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $277,960 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC — $276,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc — $275,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY LAW CENTER INC — $230,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $228,733 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $218,916 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $210,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc — $206,000 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $195,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC — $195,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $176,522 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $173,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetTHE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC — $170,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC — $156,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $153,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL — $151,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMaryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $145,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $145,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC — $142,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE INC — $140,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $135,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC — $135,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetPIGTOWN MAIN STREET INC — $130,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $125,678 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMPROVING EDUCATION INC — $120,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC — $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC — $120,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $110,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC — $105,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetBALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP — $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetClimate Access Fund Corporation — $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC — $100,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MARYLAND — $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWell Done Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% 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.

  • Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
  • Who funds THREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Ingenuity Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN 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.

Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…France-Merrick Founda…Clayton Baker TrustThe Harry and Jeanett…The Morris Goldseker …T Rowe Price Foundati…Fund for Educational …Associated Jewish Cha…Annie E Casey Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD123× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving 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 Lockhart Vaughan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 340%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Upton Planning Committee Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Maryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools Inc — 100% of income from government
  • St James Development Corporation Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Central Baltimore Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Baltimore Community Lending Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Turnaround Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Jubilee Baltimore Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Design Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Parity Baltimore Incorporated — 11% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • 4MyCity Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
34get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lockhart Vaughan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lockhart Vaughan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 202 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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