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National Pipe Band Foundation at a glance

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National Pipe Band Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$138kPhilanthropy$99kReligion$44kArts & Culture$16kHuman Services$10kScience & Tech$8kEnvironment$5kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION$20,000
MARYLAND SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS$6,782
Individual grant recipient$1,000
NATIONAL AQUARIUM OF BALTIMORE$1,000
BAIS MEDRASH OF OWINGS MILLS$500
FRIENDS OF WHIPPS CEMETARY AND MEMORIAL GARDENS$500
THE SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME ATLANTIC-MIDWEST PROVINCE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 9 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$270k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+43%

Still filing today

33%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +157%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $58k · revenue +64%
  • MS
    MARYLAND SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
    2× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • ZA
    ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • BP
    BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TH
    THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +33%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES: $98,780 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIESCONG ARIEL RUSSIAN COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE INC: $25,500 · OtherCONG ARIEL RUSSIAN COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE INCZOELLNER ARTS CENTER: $10,752 · OtherZOELLNER ARTS CENTERBALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherBOLTON STREET SYNAGOGUE: $9,500 · OtherMARYLAND SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: $8,282 · Other+10 more: $34,533 · Other+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $60,848 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $58,007 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · EducationTHE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDA…THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $9,553 · Human ServicesGARRETT-JACOBS MANSION ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$197,347Education$125,855Human Services$9,553Philanthropy$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $60,848 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $58,007 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $9,553 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: $8,282 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGARRETT-JACOBS MANSION ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ↗
  • Who funds THE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GARRETT-JACOBS MANSION ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Pipe Band Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Pipe Band Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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