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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (FY17–19, $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 its 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
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

ND
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+16%
+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
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

  • FS
    FRANKLIN SQUARE HOSPITAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • ENDURING HEARTS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +33%
  • 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%
  • PA
    POLICE ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF FUND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +12%
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.

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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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3
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
6
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
7
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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9
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
10
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
11
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
39/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE 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 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 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 budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPOLICE ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 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 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 budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetPROJECT PURPLE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIPOSA CHILD SUCCESS PROGRAMS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT MEADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 Rhona's Place Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhona's Place Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 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-PF 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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