How much did MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

healthcarebaltimore integrationintegration partnershipworkforcecareeremploymentskills

2020

censuseducationalhealthyadvancing careerscareers retailretail intiativeneighborhoods

2022

youth empoweredbusinesssocial

2023

revolveclimate partnerspartners affinityaffinity grouphealth disparitiesequitystrong

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k13 grants · $215k
$50k–250k6 grants · $370k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

HEALING CITIES INC$120,000
RESILNC$50,000
SPOTLIGHT PR LLC$50,000
JUST FUTURES PBC$50,000
IGNITE CAPITAL INC$50,000
HIGHER PURPOSE CO$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
STATION NORTH ARTS CAFE'$10,000
THE FAMILY TREE$10,000
MEASURED CAPITAL LLC$10,000
BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000

02The need

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 (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$648k

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+76%

Still filing today

86%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth 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 +36%
IC
IGNITE CAPITAL INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +1350%
MN
MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS
2× · 2018–2020 · $74k · revenue +67%

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 VOTERSgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $99k · revenue +222%

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.

Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore

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Baltimore Corps Inc

To enlist talent to accelerate social innovation in baltimore and advance a citywide agenda for equity and racial justice.

Employment

Community Development Network of

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

Community Improvement

Leadership Maryland Inc

Building a better maryland takes a special kind of strength-the kind of strength you'll find every day in leaders throughout our local businesses and communities. at leadership maryland, we harness that strength by bringing together local…

Public Benefit

Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

To provide a strong, unified and effective voice for the business community in the functional area of urban affairs and public policy, business services and information, and economic development, thereby promoting the Baltimore Region as…

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Baltimore Green Space a Land Trustfor Community-Managed Open Space in

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

Dc Community Development Consortium Institute

Community Improvement

Emerging Technology Centers Inc

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

Community Improvement

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

Maryland-Delaware-Dc Press

Education

Disability Rights Maryland Inc

DRM advances the human and legal rights of people with disabilities, helping secure their opportunities to participate fully in community life, and defending their rights to self-determination, dignity, and equality.

Crime & Legal

Innovation Works Inc

Reduce baltimore's neighborhood and racial wealth divide. teach members of disinvested communities how to build and own successful social enterprises that create sustainable neighborhood economies and result in better family living, more…

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 Rocky Mountain Institute. 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 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/87

the rest of the field

12%

5,065/41,762

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

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/52

Grantees still filing

36/52

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

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

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD51.1× affinity25 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 · T Rowe Price Foundation · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IGNITE CAPITAL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~110 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 14.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 844893203 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on IGNITE CAPITAL INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 110 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Maryland Philanthropy Network?

Find your warmest path to Maryland Philanthropy Network through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maryland Philanthropy Network?

More from the funding graph

MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maryland Philanthropy Network?

More from the funding graph