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Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$329k
Granted FY2025still arriving
96
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$703kHealth$303kEnvironment$156kArts & Culture$126kRecreation & Sports$123kAnimals$111kHuman Services$109kReligion$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k86 grants · $210k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $119k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GBMC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
FRIENDS OF MARYLAND STATE PARKS$13,000
CALVERT SCHOOL$12,500
GOUCHER COLLEGE$12,500
KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE$12,000
MOTHER MARY LANGE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$11,000
OCEAN CITY RECREATION BOOSTERS$10,000
SEWANEE & THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$10,000
UMS-WRIGHT PREPATORY SCHOOL$10,000
MARYLAND CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$8,000
CASA OF MID SHORE$7,500
REDEEMER PARISH DAY SCHOOL$7,000
MARYLAND SPCA$6,500
IRVINE NATURE CENTER$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEART GALLERY OF TAMPA: $3k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $6k → 19%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $5k → 19%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $4k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 19%ROLAND PARK PLACE: $5k → 19%SEVENTH DISTRICT RECREATION COUNCIL: $2k → 11%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $5k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $3k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $1k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $1k → 19%ARAMINTA FREEDOM INITIATIVE: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 102 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

102 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
71

Total granted

$1.9M
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+13%

Still filing today

57%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $339k · revenue +40%
  • GC
    GOUCHER COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $67k · revenue +26%
  • IN
    IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • WO
    WHITE OAK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UO
    University of Maryland Medical System Corporation
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +13%
  • MU
    MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical System Inc

The mission of umbwms is to provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve. our vision is to be the preferred regional medical center through nationally recognized quality, personalized service and outstanding…

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2
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…

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3
University of Maryland Physicians 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…

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4
University of Maryland Surgical 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…

Health
5
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to solicit and receive contributions and grants from the general public and to hold, invest, and administer these funds and pay expenditures for the benefit of the university of maryland in baltimore and to…

Education
6
University of Maryland Oncology 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…

Health
7
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates 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…

Education
8
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Dermatologists 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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.

Health
11
University of Maryland Neurology 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…

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12
Baltimore Washington Medical Center Inc

The mission of baltimore washington medical center (bwmc) is to provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve. our vision is to be the preferred regional medical center through nationally recognized quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 189 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/104
Grantees still filing
62/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $162,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOHN HOPKINS: $63,500 · OtherCRISTO REY: $58,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherGBMC: $51,000 · OtherCASA OF MID SHORE: $41,000 · Other+116 more: $781,050 · Other+116 moreCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $339,000 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATE…GOUCHER COLLEGE: $67,000 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGEROANOKE COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $17,500 · Education+10 more: $56,064 · Education+10 moreIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $47,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentTHE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC: $14,500 · EnvironmentCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $8,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentFRISKY'S WILDLIFE AND PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC: $4,500 · Environment+4 more: $7,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $44,000 · HealthUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $12,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $6,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 · HealthNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $4,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Health+4 more: $6,500 · HealthBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $14,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDEER CREEK CHORALE INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAMPTON INCORPORATED: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $30,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $21,500 · AnimalsBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $9,310 · AnimalsThe Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc: $7,000 · AnimalsEAST COAST EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $5,500 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation Fund: $5,000 · AnimalsPHOENIX WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $3,000 · Animals+4 more: $4,500 · AnimalsMARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesROLAND PARK PLACE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesAraminta Freedom Initiative: $2,500 · Human ServicesHeart Gallery of Tampa Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesSEVENTH DISTRICT RECREATION COUNCIL: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$1,212,050Education$499,564Environment$112,500Health$91,500Arts & Culture$90,000Animals$86,310Human Services$42,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $339,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $67,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $21,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMARYLAND RECREATION & PARKS ASSOC INC: $18,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $15,564 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARYLAND CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC: $14,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBrian Cosgrove Memorial Fund: $13,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESEE VALLEY OUTDOOR LEARNING CTR: $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC NORTHERN CHESAPEAKE REGION INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $9,310 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE INC: $8,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Bow Wow Buddies Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Hampden Family Center Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEAST COAST EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Oak Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROLAND PARK PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND RECREATION & PARKS ASSOC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Brian Cosgrove Memorial Fund ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…T Rowe Price Program …Middendorf Foundation…France-Merrick Founda…The Marion I & Henry …Associated Jewish Cha…The John J Leidy Foun…T Rowe Price Foundati…Brown Advisory Charit…The Bunting Family Fo…The Kahlert Foundatio…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD62.4× affinity32 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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Maryland Family Network Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Araminta Freedom Initiative: 26% of income from government
  • Baltimore Squashwise Inc: 23% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Episcopal Housing Corporation: 8% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Naples Community Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 189 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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