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Maryland Philanthropy Network

Maryland philantropy network (mpn) maximizes the impact of philanthropic giving on community life through a growing network of diverse, informed and effective grantmakers.

$735k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$849kEmployment$746kEnvironment$429kYouth Development$251kHealth$98kPhilanthropy$81kHuman Services$71kEducation$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $585,002 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $734,770 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $149,768 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $370k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALING CITIES INC$120,000
SPOTLIGHT PR LLC$50,000
IGNITE CAPITAL INC$50,000
JUST FUTURES PBC$50,000
HIGHER PURPOSE CO$50,000
RESILNC$50,000
REVOLVE FUND INC$49,000
CIVIC WORKS$40,000
YOUTH EMPOWERED SOCIETY$21,002
THE EQUITY BRAIN TRUST$15,000
POPPA'S CUSTARD COMPANY$10,000
THE FAMILY TREE$10,000
ACR CAPITAL$10,000
STATION NORTH ARTS CAFE'$10,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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%KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $3k → 11%PENNSYLVANNIA AVE MAIN STREETS: $1k → 19%YOUTH EMPOWERED SOCIETY: $21k → 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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL

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.

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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$648k · 7 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
63

Total granted

$648k
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+30%

Still filing today

86%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CW
    CIVIC WORKS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $304k · revenue +45%
  • IC
    IGNITE CAPITAL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +141%
  • MN
    MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $74k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • TK
    THE KENNETH BATTYE CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $141k
  • ML
    MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $99k · revenue -14%

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 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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3
Community Development Network of Maryland Inc

To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Community Improvement
4
Innovation Works Inc

The corporation will develop sustainable neighborhood economies in depressed areas by: igniting interest in sustainable social enterprise, helping individuals transform challenges into opportunities, creating sustainable social…

Community Improvement
5
Baltimore Community Lending Inc

The mission of baltimore community lending is supporting the revitalization and strengthening of underserved communities in the greater baltimore region through innovative financial solutions and collaborative resources designed to promote…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
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8
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

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9
Emerging Technology Centers Inc

To foster a transformative community of tech-savvy, innovative, entrepenurial people looking for creative collaboration to accelerate their growth potential and make powerful economic impact on the City of Baltimore and beyond.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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12
Business Volunteers Maryland Inc

Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pass It On Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr16%15%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr16%24%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/88
the rest of the field
14%
5,902/41,761

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
30/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE — $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORETHE KENNETH BATTYE CHARITABLE TRUST — $140,850 · OtherTHE KENNETH BATTYE CHARITABLE TRUSTHEALING CITIES INC DBA HEALING CITY BALTIMORE — $120,000 · OtherHEALING CITIES INC DBA HEALING CITY BALTIMOREIGNITE CAPITAL INC — $100,000 · OtherIGNITE CAPITAL INCMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $99,255 · OtherMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INCCASA INC — $62,761 · Other+54 more — $851,587 · Other+54 moreCIVIC WORKS INC — $303,863 · EducationCIVIC WORKS INCECHOING GREEN INC — $25,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN I…+4 more — $27,600 · Education+4 moreSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $60,390 · EnvironmentSIERRA CL…CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $59,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAK…CENTER FOR CLIMATE STRATEGIES INC — $55,265 · EnvironmentCENTER FO…INSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION — $55,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE…HUMANIM INC — $88,500 · HealthHUMANIM I…MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC — $74,200 · HealthMARYLAND …BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH — $50,000 · HealthBALTIMORE…+1 more — $5,000 · HealthHigher Purpose Hub — $50,000 · Community ImprovementINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER BAYBROOK ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,080 · Community ImprovementMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH) — $10,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $6,200 · Community Improvement+3 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC — $69,737 · Youth DevelopmentGREENMOUNT WEST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK LEADERS DETROIT — $50,000 · EmploymentJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC — $25,500 · Employment
Other$1,524,453Education$356,463Environment$229,655Health$217,700Community Improvement$168,280Youth Development$119,737Employment$75,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCIVIC WORKS INC — $303,863 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHEALING CITIES INC DBA HEALING CITY BALTIMORE — $120,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetIGNITE CAPITAL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $99,255 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetHUMANIM INC — $88,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC — $74,200 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC — $69,737 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA INC — $62,761 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $60,390 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $59,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE STRATEGIES INC — $55,265 over 1y, 12% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION — $55,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBLACK LEADERS DETROIT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHigher Purpose Hub — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENMOUNT WEST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC — $37,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC — $25,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER BAYBROOK ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Empowerment Society Inc — $21,002 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNARRATIVE NATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMaryland Institute — $9,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $6,960 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS — $6,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $6,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAVORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMS BALTIMORE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImmigration Outreach Service Center — $4,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDruid Heights Community Development Corporation — $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKEYS EMPOWERS INC — $3,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE HEALTHY START INC — $3,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Law in Action Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBELAIR-EDISON NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $1,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUpton Planning Committee Inc — $1,130 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Abell Foundation …Baltimore Community F…Zanvyl and Isabelle K…The Harry and Jeanett…Annie E Casey Foundat…T Rowe Price Foundati…Baltimore Civic Fund …The United Way of Cen…Fund for Educational …France-Merrick Founda…The Morris Goldseker …Robert W Deutsch Foun…
The Abell Foundation IncMD50.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Robert W Deutsch Foundation

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 Philanthropy Network 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 · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Druid Heights Community Development Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Health — 100% of income from government
  • Upton Planning Committee Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Reservoir Hill Improvement Council Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Baltimore Healthy Start Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Park Heights Renaissance Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore — 1% of income from government
  • Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report 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.

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 87 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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