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Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$833k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$9.7MEnvironment$3.7MPhilanthropy$3.6MReligion$3.1MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$618kPublic Benefit$600kCivil Rights$334kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.6M
$150,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$833,333
CLYBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC$500,000
ST JAMES ACADEMY$500,000
STEVENSON UNIVERSITY$263,092
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND$250,000
ROANOKE COLLEGE$250,000
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$200,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VA$200,000
NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL$150,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$150,000
ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC$100,000
OPERATION RELIEF FUND$100,000
CALVERT HALL COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE CITY$83,333
THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION$75,000
THE COMMIT FOUNDATION$75,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $750k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%SEALKIDS: $75k → 15%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $150k → 6%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $75k → 6%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%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

MT
IL
OH
PA
NJ
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 29 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$17M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+22%

Still filing today

66%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $988k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MS
    MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +19%
  • CS
    CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +29%
  • SU
    STEVENSON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $787k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue +25% · 39% of their budget
  • NA
    NATIONAL AQUARIUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +36%
  • 1S
    13 SIGNAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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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 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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4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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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10
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
11
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is St James Academy 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION (APPLEWOOD DONOR ADVISED FUND): $3,063,108 · OtherAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION (APPLEWOOD…ST JAMES ACADEMY INC: $850,000 · OtherST JAMES ACADEMY INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VA: $800,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VALoyola University Maryland Inc: $500,000 · OtherLoyola University Maryland Inc13 SIGNAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Other13 SIGNAL FOUNDATIONNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $400,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $375,000 · OtherGILCHRIST CENTER FOR HOSPICE CARE: $300,000 · OtherMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $334,000 · Other+19 more: $1,370,166 · Other+19 moreMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $3,369,872 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATEDCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,875,000 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATEDSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $787,274 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSITYENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $600,000 · EducationENTITLEMENTS HOW INCWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $400,000 · Education+9 more: $795,342 · Education+9 moreUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $3,000,000 · HealthUniversity of M…THE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $212,500 · HealthTHE UNION MEMOR…+1 more: $105,000 · HealthCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,666,666 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE …CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentCYLBURN ARB…SHORERIVERS INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentSHORERIVERS…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Human ServicesSEALKIDS: $75,000 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $500,000 · AnimalsMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · AnimalsBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$8,492,274Education$7,827,488Health$3,317,500Environment$2,426,666Human Services$765,000Animals$540,000Philanthropy$505,000

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 budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $3,369,872 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $3,000,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,875,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,666,666 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $787,274 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $600,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $334,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $250,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $212,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWARRIOR REUNION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hampden Family Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BE THE PEOPLE PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMURPHY FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSAGA UNITED STATES ADAPTIVE GOLF ALLIANCE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $342 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.

  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC ↗
  • Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR REUNION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEALKIDS ↗

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 Foundation IncMD36.9× affinity16 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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Arbor Dog Foundation Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · Campbell Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust

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 Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
5report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Inc 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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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