· Public charity
Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore Inc
Our mission is to empower our members to improve their finanical well-being and live better.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $71,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,815 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,815 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
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CU FOUNDATION ANNUAL SUPPORT | $20,000 |
| MDDC CU ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| AACUC CORP CONTRIBUTION | $9,000 |
| MECU FOUNDATION INC | $8,500 |
| ARTS EVERY DAY 20192020 | $7,500 |
| MSU FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN CREDIT UNION COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +666%
- MFMECU FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2024 · $59k · revenue +16% · 87% of their budget
- BCBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- SISCHOLASTIC INCone grant, 2018 · $11k
American Diabetes Associationone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -4%- CCCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +48%
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.
The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.
The baltimore development corporation (bdc) is a non-profit organization that serves as the economic development agency for the city of baltimore. bdc's mission is to grow the city's economy in an inclusive, equitable manner by retaining,…
To educate the community on the adverse conditions under which they are living and propose various methods of alleviating conditions by conducting public forums and publishing studies.
To raise and manage funds and to provide financial support to the university of baltimore. the foundation provides leadership, guidance, and support to the university's administration in advancing the mission and vision of the university.
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…
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To assist the small business community through various efforts including consulting, financing, training and member networking opportunities.
The mission of baltimore community foundation is to inspire donors to achieve their charitable goals from generation to generation and to improve the quality of life in the baltimore region through grantmaking, enlightened civic leadership…
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…
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Civic Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION AND THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION OF MD & DC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CREDIT UNION COALITION ↗
- Who funds MECU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUNICIPAL GOLF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY ROAD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
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: T Rowe Price Foundation · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc · The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 · Clayton Baker Trust · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund 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 Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore 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.
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc — 5% 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.