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Ravens Foundation Inc

To improve, encourage and enable the healthy development of youth in the baltimore area and in other parts of the state of maryland through a focus on programs that address housing, hunger, education, athletics, and mentoring.

$771k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$698kRecreation & Sports$605kYouth Development$503kArts & Culture$181kPhilanthropy$165kHuman Services$163kFood & Nutrition$153kEmployment$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $218,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $771,059 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $552,559 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$287k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYLAND BOOK BANK$150,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$11,000
VAN NOY VALOR FOUNDATION$10,000
WIGGS WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
THE ROQUAN SMITH FOUNDATION CO EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$10,000
TWO ALL FOUNDATION$10,000
THE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY$10,000
MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ROQUAN SMITH FOUNDATION CO EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CARR CARES FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%FAM1ST FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE ROQUAN SMITH FOUNDATION CO EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CARR CARES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 5%CARR CARES FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $10k → 19%PCS FOR PEOPLE MARYLAND: $30k → 19%HEROES HELPING HEROES: $8k → 11%TYUS BOWSER FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $8k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $25k → 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Ravens Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ravens Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 21 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
38

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+32%

Still filing today

71%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • HO
    HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $323k · revenue +378%
  • NO
    NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $175k · revenue +78%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HA
    HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
    one grant, 2018 · $162k
  • LT
    LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INCgraduated
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +263%
  • KI
    KABOOM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +72%

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 Sports Academy Inc

Baltimore Sports Academy serves under resourced communities by providing elementary-aged youth access to summer camps, after school programs, and sports leagues to develop strong bodies, minds and spirits. We assist youth to have success…

Recreation & Sports
2
Bridges Baltimore Inc

Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.

Education
3
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc

Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city. the fund awards grants to community-based, youth-serving organizations and provides capacity-building and technical assistance to…

Youth Development
4
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
5
Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore

Csfb awards kindergarten to 8th grade scholarships to low income baltimore city families without regard to gender, race, grades or test scores, ethnicity or religious belief.

Education
6
Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development
7
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
8
Five Smooth Stones Foundation Inc

Baltimore collegiate school for boys provides the finest liberal arts education possible to baltimore's next generation of young men, ensuring that they will become responsible citizens trained to lead and serve our community, our nation,…

Education
9
Stocks in the Future Foundation Inc

Stocks in the Futures mission is to enhance school performance through the teaching of financial skills to middles school students needing motivation.

Philanthropy
10
Kipp Baltimore Inc

The mission of kipp baltimore is to create and operate public schools in baltimore city that lead students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and a diversity of skill levels to attend and succeed in four-year colleges.

Education
11
Baltimore Design School Inc

Baltimore design school fosters creativity and develops the academic and critical thinking skills of 6th through 12th grade students and prepares them for admission to college and careers in the design fields of architecture, fashion, and…

Education
12
Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Squashwise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Girls Cook. 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 backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Faith-Based Social ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Youth CampsIndependent K-12 Schools
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 18 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%19%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%9%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/64
the rest of the field
14%
5,902/41,785

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.

05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $395,000 · OtherBALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSHOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $161,517 · OtherHOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITYTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $62,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCFREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $50,000 · OtherJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC — $100,000 · OtherJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC+24 more — $378,000 · Other+24 moreLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE P…KABOOM INC — $139,722 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INCATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsATHLETES SERVI…+4 more — $31,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 moreNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT ONE UP F…PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEPLAYERS …PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDU…CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHESAPEAKE BA…THE VAN NOY VALOR FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE VAN NOY V…THE TENDER BRIDGE INC — $12,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $37,500 · Youth Development+4 moreHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $323,466 · Community ImprovementHEART OF AMER…PCS FOR PEOPLE — $30,000 · Human ServicesCARR CARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesFAM 1ST FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TYUS BOWSER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesHHH HEROES HELPING HEROES INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC — $181,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $70,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BRADLEY AND NIKKI BOZEMAN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyMICROGRANTS — $20,000 · PhilanthropyBWI COMMUNITY DEVELOP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWatson Seven Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,146,517Recreation & Sports$350,722Youth Development$331,500Community Improvement$323,466Human Services$185,000Arts & Culture$181,000Philanthropy$175,000

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 budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $323,466 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC — $181,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $150,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetKABOOM INC — $139,722 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $70,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $62,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRADLEY AND NIKKI BOZEMAN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetPCS FOR PEOPLE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRC FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCARR CARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDENT EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE VAN NOY VALOR FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetRONNIE STANLEY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMICROGRANTS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAM 1ST FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAYDEN HURST FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK GIRLS COOK — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBWI COMMUNITY DEVELOP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWatson Seven Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSisters Circle Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS BALTIMORE — $8,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE ROWING CLUB INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSIONFIT — $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHHH HEROES HELPING HEROES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBLUEBIRD EDUCATION NETWORK INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNMATCHED ATHLETE CORPORATION — $5,500 over 1y, 56% 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.

Fund for Educational …Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…The Marion I & Henry …The Abell Foundation …Annie E Casey Foundat…T Rowe Price Foundati…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…The Morris Goldseker …T Rowe Price Program …Brown Advisory Charit…
Fund for Educational Excellence IncMD40.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory 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 Ravens 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 · 120%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Complete Player Charity Ltd — 6% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 64 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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