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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $218,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $771,059 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $552,559 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
THE ROQUAN SMITH FOUNDATION CO EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$10,000
TWO ALL FOUNDATION$10,000
VAN NOY VALOR FOUNDATION$10,000
THE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY$10,000
WIGGS WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL$7,500
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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NJ
CA
CO
KY
MD
DE
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Ravens Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 77%.

Ravens Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

+48%
+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
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

  • 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%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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
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
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
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 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Squashwise Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAM 1ST FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TYUS BOWSER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesHHH HEROES HELPING HEROES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION 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 · PhilanthropyWatson Seven Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBWI COMMUNITY DEVELOP 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPCS FOR PEOPLE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRADLEY AND NIKKI BOZEMAN FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCARR CARES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetCRC FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENT EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONNIE STANLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE VAN NOY VALOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFAM 1ST FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWatson Seven Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAYDEN HURST FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSisters Circle Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBWI COMMUNITY DEVELOP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS COOK: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS BALTIMORE: $8,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHHH HEROES HELPING HEROES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% 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 budgetTHE BALTIMORE ROWING CLUB INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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 64 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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