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Rhona's Place Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.6MHealth$584kEducation$171kHuman Services$56kRecreation & Sports$29kEmployment$18kReligion$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
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 (FY17–19, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $3k → 6%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%CAMP KESEM: $1k → 14%MARIPOSA CHILD SUCCESS PROGRAMS: $2k → 19%ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC: $1k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $1k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 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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MD
DC
GA
FL

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 23 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
42

Total granted

$2.1M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+41%

Still filing today

43%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalAnimalsOther

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

  • FS
    FRANKLIN SQUARE HOSPITAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • ENDURING HEARTS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +141%
  • AC
    ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +29%
  • MS
    MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • UF
    ULMAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +82%

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.

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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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2
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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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
4
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
5
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
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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
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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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University of Maryland Neurology 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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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
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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
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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
12
University of Maryland Eye 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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charm City Youth Lacrosse League 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersCancer Support OrganizationsVeteran Support ServicesHospice Care ServicesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Child and Family ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Education Equity LeadershipAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Sports Booster Organi…Independent K-8 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr14%72%35–55yr14%16%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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,308

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

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 67 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC — $70,000 · OtherMCDONOGH FOREVER FUND — $65,000 · OtherGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE - GILCHRIST KIDS — $62,000 · Other+31 more — $187,250 · Other+31 moreGBMC FOUNDATION INC — $282,000 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATION I…FRANKLIN SQUARE HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $100,000 · HealthFRANKLIN SQUARE H…ENDURING HEARTS INC — $35,000 · HealthENDURING HEARTS I…+9 more — $37,500 · Health+9 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $450,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTME…GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $240,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER W…+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc — $40,000 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $25,000 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · EducationCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · EducationROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $5,000 · EducationEMPOWER4LIFEMD Inc — $4,500 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Education+2 more — $4,000 · EducationASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National — $6,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $3,000 · Human ServicesAraminta Freedom Initiative — $2,500 · Human ServicesMARIPOSA CHILD SUCCESS PROGRAMS INC — $2,000 · Human Services+2 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesCharm City Youth Lacrosse League Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,684,250Health$454,500Community Improvement$450,000Philanthropy$242,000Education$93,500Human Services$31,500Recreation & Sports$20,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $450,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $240,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN SQUARE HOSPITAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC — $70,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENDURING HEARTS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOLICE ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPATHFINDERS FOR AUTISM — $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER4LIFEMD Inc — $4,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUILDING CONGRESS & EXCHANGE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSANSKRITI INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAraminta Freedom Initiative — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIPOSA CHILD SUCCESS PROGRAMS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPROJECT PURPLE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT MEADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROBERTA'S HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIFIED COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDRINK AT THE WELL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…The United Way of Cen…Associated Jewish Cha…Edward St John Founda…The Abell Foundation …T Rowe Price Program …The Kahlert Foundatio…Allegis Group Foundat…Crane Family Foundati…Cordish Family Founda…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD38.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Allegis Group Foundation Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · Cordish Family 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 Rhona's Place Foundation 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 · 180%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Araminta Freedom Initiative — 26% of income from government
  • Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Rhona's Place Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rhona's Place Foundation 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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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