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Middendorf Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$2.6MArts & Culture$1.9MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$655kEnvironment$510kHousing & Shelter$322kFood & Nutrition$299kAnimals$283kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $200
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.8M
$2,762,587
Median grant
1
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,762,587
FOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$200
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 (FY17–21, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $100k → 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

ID
MA
OR
PA
CT
VA
MD
TN
LA
GA

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 19 repeat orgs$7.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
141

Total granted

$13M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+35%

Still filing today

53%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman 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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $280k · revenue +21%
  • BA
    BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS
    2× · 2017–2020 · $139k · revenue +56%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $127k · revenue +280%

Funded once

  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +53%
  • GC
    GILCHRIST CENTER OF BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • GH
    GBMC HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $250k

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 Area Health Education Center

To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…

Health
2
Baltimore Montessori Inc

To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.

Education
3
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
4
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

5
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
6
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…

7
Visit Baltimore Inc

Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.

8
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Inc

Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.

Religion
9
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…

10
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
11
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
12
Blackbird Laboratories Inc

Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMental Health & Addiction S…Baltimore Neighborhood Deve…Early Childhood Care CentersDiverse Mission Support Org…Hospital Health SystemsProfessional Industry Assoc…Homeless Services & HousingSenior Affordable HousingSenior Affordable HousingCommunity Arts CentersLabor UnionsIndependent K-12 SchoolsDisability Support ServicesHospital Health SystemsChesapeake Bay ConservationProfessional Performing Arts
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr12%36%35–55yr20%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr17%4%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr20%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/102
the rest of the field
14%
1,953/14,383

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

94 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 161 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
75/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $11,200,144 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+102 more — $5,529,554 · Other+102 moreWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $280,000 · EducationFRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $200,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $125,000 · EducationWYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC — $100,000 · EducationRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC — $75,000 · EducationSOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION — $75,000 · EducationSun Valley Community School Inc — $70,000 · EducationTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+7 more — $81,300 · EducationMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $127,310 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAMPTON INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMPOUND INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND ART PLACE INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $77,142 · Arts & CultureTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $178,000 · HealthUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation — $150,000 · HealthSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $100,663 · HealthTuerk House Inc — $70,000 · HealthMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $50,608 · HealthLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthBALTIMORE RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,500 · HealthLEGACY HEALTH — $35,000 · HealthINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC — $30,000 · Health+3 more — $71,240 · HealthCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC — $75,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Patterson Park Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC — $39,000 · EnvironmentCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC — $29,285 · Environment+1 more — $17,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $139,270 · AnimalsMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · AnimalsDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $20,000 · AnimalsST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC — $111,747 · Housing & ShelterGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$16,729,698Education$1,106,300Arts & Culture$904,452Health$776,011Environment$560,285Animals$259,270Housing & Shelter$236,747

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 budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $280,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $178,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $139,270 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $127,310 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC — $111,747 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $100,663 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANNA HOUSE INC — $90,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION — $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP — $75,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTuerk House Inc — $70,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAROLINE CENTER INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe William S Baer School — $60,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetThe Loading Dock Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC — $50,852 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $50,608 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHISTORIC HAMPTON INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMPOUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFriends of Patterson Park Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetMARYLAND ART PLACE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBALTIMORE RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC — $39,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLEGACY HEALTH — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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 IncMD92.7× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation 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 Middendorf Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 240%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge100% of income from government
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc100% of income from government
  • Baltimore Heritage Incorporated63% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc50% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc43% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc33% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp28% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc26% of income from government
  • Baltimore Squashwise Inc23% of income from government
  • Intersection of Change Inc20% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc19% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc11% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc9% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences9% of income from government
  • Casa Inc8% of income from government
  • Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc8% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc7% of income from government
  • B&o Railroad Museum Inc7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc7% of income from government
  • Stevenson University6% of income from government
  • The Howard County Conservancy Inc5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art4% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc4% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc2% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc1% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc1% of income from government
  • Washington College0% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation0% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc0% of income from government
  • Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc0% of income from government
  • Legacy Health0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Middendorf Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Middendorf Foundation Inc 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 161 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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