· Public charity
Maryland Family Network Inc
Maryland family network (mfn) ensures that young child have strong families, quality learning environments, and a champion for their interests.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k6 grants · $875k
- $250k+32 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC | $2,247,222 |
| MARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORP | $1,980,446 |
| PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC | $1,515,623 |
| BON SECOURS OF MD FNDN | $1,513,783 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $1,329,316 |
| KENNEDY KRIEGER | $1,328,091 |
| HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY | $1,041,736 |
| SHORE UP INC | $1,002,008 |
| TALBOT COUNTY HEALTH DEPT | $990,655 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COMM ACTION AGENCY | $893,519 |
| THE FAMILY TREE | $879,615 |
| ABILITIES NETWORK | $851,698 |
| DIRECTOR OF FINANCE HOWARD COUNTY | $804,620 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $739,587 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE - CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE CHANGE | $720,523 |
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 (FY17–25, $37.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% 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.
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 15% of Maryland Family Network Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +51%
- KKKENNEDY KRIEGER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +36%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $655k · revenue +31%
- CCCecil Collegeone grant, 2017 · $234k
- LFLUNA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.
Our mission is to provide services of the highest quality for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities and related disorders including autism that optimize each individual's independence and capabilities, ensure…
To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.
Building resourceful families and healthy children to create a strong community.
To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.
The mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with people of all ages and abilities and those who support them in the community to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, and a meaningful community life.
Social services and mental health
To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
The mission of family and medical counseling service is to employ community based, culturally competent approaches to provide comprehensive services that promote the emotional and physical health of families and individuals regardless of…
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Human Services Programs of Carroll County 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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 ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE UP INC P O BOX 430 ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PACT HELPING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE AND DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Kare Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds APPLES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ARUNDEL CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSPRING PROGRAMS 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: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Sharebaby Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable
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 Maryland Family Network Inc 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.
- Life and Discovery Inc — 100% of income from government
- Maryland Rural Development Corporation — 62% of income from government
- Apples for Children Inc — 57% of income from government
- Shore Up Inc P O Box 430 — 56% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- Pact Helping Children With Special Needs Inc — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc — 7% of income from government
- Abilities Network Inc — 6% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
- Kingdom Kare Inc — 2% of income from government
- Dayspring Programs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kennedy Krieger Education and Community Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% 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.