· Private foundation
Middendorf Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $200
- $250k+1 grant · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,762,587 |
| FOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $200 |
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 (FY17–21, $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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGE3× · 2017–2019 · $280k · revenue +21%
- BABALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS2× · 2017–2020 · $139k · revenue +56%
- AFARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC2× · 2018–2021 · $127k · revenue +280%
Funded once
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +53%- GCGILCHRIST CENTER OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2019 · $250k
- GHGBMC HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $250k
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.
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…
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.
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…
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
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…
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…
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.
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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.
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Corporation ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
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: 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Baltimore Heritage Incorporated — 63% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- The Howard County Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Medical System Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Legacy Health — 0% 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.
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