How much did RAVENS FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

RAVENS FOUNDATION INC reported 8 grants totaling $771,059 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is RAVENS FOUNDATION INC based?

RAVENS FOUNDATION INC is based in MD.

RAVENS FOUNDATION INC

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· Public charity

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 FY2024

Grants

Communities

$150k

Largest

01What you fund

0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$351kYouth Development$332kCommunity Improvement$323kHuman Services$185kArts & Culture$181kPhilanthropy$175kEmployment$100kEducation$92kHealth$25kOther$930k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

young menmobilityempoweringathletes

2019

jobyoung menmobilityinspirelow-incomeempoweringfoundation's

2020

sync snackeducational

2021

rescue dogsage-appropriate booksliteracysync snackathletes

2022

creativedesignexcellencestudentsathletesfoodeducational

2023

rescue dogscareerdisadvantaged

2024

equippingage-appropriate books

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k6 grants · $61k
$50k–250k1 grant · $150k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$287k

Total assets

Largest grants

MARYLAND BOOK BANK$150,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$11,000
THE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY$10,000
THE ROQUAN SMITH FOUNDATION CO EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$10,000
VAN NOY VALOR FOUNDATION$10,000
TWO ALL FOUNDATION$10,000
WIGGS WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL$7,500

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 23 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+77%

Still filing today

74%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationHealthOther

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

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HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2019 · $323k · revenue +378%
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NEXT ONE UP3
2× · 2018–2019 · $175k · revenue +302%
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TWO ALL FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +3976%

Funded once

HA
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE
one grant, 2018 · $162k
LT
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INCgraduated
2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +321%
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KABOOM
one grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue -19%

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.

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

The Boys and Girls Clubs

Boys & girls clubs of metropolitan baltimore (bgcmb) provides youth development programs and services for youth ages 6 to 18 during the critical out-of-school time hours. our nine club locations are community-based and led by paid,…

Youth Development

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

Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore

To provide scholarships to low income students in grades k-8 to attend the school their parents choose.

Education

Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services

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

Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

Build an efficient and detailed curriculum for all interested baltimore city public schools.

Education

Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

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

Education

The Education Foundation of Baltimore

To support improved educational outcomes for our community through fundraising, programs and advocacy. to contribute to a brighter future in which all students, educators and schools have the resources needed for success.

Education

Afya Baltimore Inc

To improve student achievement while promoting health. students at afya will be engaged in physical activity while focusing on the development of their reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills.

Education

Baltimore Design School Inc

Baltimore design school (bds) 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,…

Education

Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc

Baltimore children & youth fund, inc. (bcyf, inc.) is a nonprofit organization stewarding public funds to ensure baltimore children and youth are healthy, ready to succeed in school and live in stable, safe and supportive families and…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Circle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Girls Cook Inc. 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.

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 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/64

the rest of the field

12%

5,066/41,785

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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/49

Grantees still filing

35/49

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

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

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD44.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Allegis Group 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNMATCHED ATHLETE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 851992686 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNMATCHED ATHLETE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 56% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ravens Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ravens Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RAVENS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ravens Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

RAVENS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ravens Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph