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Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$3.7MEducation$2.8MReligion$800kHuman Services$430kFood & Nutrition$80kInternational$80kYouth Development$80kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
  • $250k+2 grants · $700k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$400,000
UNIV OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CTR$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$200,000
STEVENSON UNIVERSITY$100,000
GBMC$100,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND$100,000
EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC$100,000
SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB METRO BALTIMORE$35,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
COMMUNITY FND OF HARFORD COUNTY$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARFORD COUNTY$20,000
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$10,000
EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISSION OF MERCY INC: $10k → 6%DEEP ROOTS INC: $5k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $100k → 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 19%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $20k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $5k → 7%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 16 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$7.8M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+35%

Still filing today

63%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • SU
    STEVENSON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +28%
  • SD
    SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +30%
  • ED
    EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • KK
    KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • MO
    Maryland Opera Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +11%

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
University of Maryland Pediatric 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
2
University of Maryland Family Medicine 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…

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3
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
4
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
5
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…

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6
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates 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…

Education
7
University of Maryland Oncology 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
8
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine 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
9
University of Maryland Dermatologists 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
10
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…

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11
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
12
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr17%25%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr20%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr17%8%10–20yr16%78%20–35yr12%9%35–55yr20%5%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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
2,138/16,174

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

23 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. 23 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $2,400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIV OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CTR — $1,160,000 · OtherUNIV OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CTRGBMC — $700,000 · OtherGBMCSAINTS PETER AND PAUL PARISH — $300,000 · OtherSAINTS PETER AND PAUL PARISHUM ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FND — $250,000 · Other+12 more — $590,000 · Other+12 moreSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $2,200,000 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY+1 more — $20,000 · EducationSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesEASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC — $145,000 · Human ServicesINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC — $45,000 · Human Services+4 more — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $25,000 · AnimalsMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $10,000 · HealthASHLEY INC — $10,000 · HealthSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,000 · HealthMaryland Opera Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,400,000Education$2,220,000Human Services$425,000Youth Development$35,000Animals$25,000Health$25,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $2,200,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $200,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC — $145,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC — $45,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMaryland Opera Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExtreme Family Outreach Minist — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetASHLEY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 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.

The Dresher Foundatio…The Emmert Hobbs Foun…France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…Herman & Walter Samue…Community Foundation …The Harry and Jeanett…The Kahlert Foundatio…Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
The Dresher Foundation IncMD19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dresher Foundation Inc · The Emmert Hobbs Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Harford County Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Philip a Zaffere 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Philip a Zaffere 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 32 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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