Maryland · 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(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $219k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $287k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 77% of the organizations Ravens Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $209k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $170k | 77% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $140k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $145k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $212k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $719k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $714k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $251k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore City Public Schools | $395,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Heart of America Foundation | $323,466 | 2 | 5% |
| The Maryland Book Bank Inc | $181,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Next One Up Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Housing Authority of Baltimore City | $161,517 | 1 | n/a |
| Leveling the Playing Field Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Kaboom Inc | $139,722 | 1 | 1% |
| Job Opportunities Task Force Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 10% |
| The Maryland Food Bank Inc | $62,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Frederick County Public Schools | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 61 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Ravens Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
About Ravens Foundation Inc
- How much does Ravens Foundation Inc give?
- Ravens Foundation Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $218,500, out of $771,059 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ravens Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Youth Development (19%).
- Who are Ravens Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Baltimore City Public Schools ($395k), Heart of America Foundation ($323k), The Maryland Book Bank Inc ($181k).
- Does Ravens Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ravens Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fund for Educational Excellence Inc, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc.
- Where is Ravens Foundation Inc based?
- Ravens Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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