· Private foundation
Southway Builders Charitable Trust Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYPR | $10,000 |
| BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICE CORP (A1 HATHAWAY - THURGOOD MARSHALL SCHOOL) | $6,717 |
| HOMES FOR AMERICA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NHP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROCA BALTIMORE | $5,000 |
| PROJECT JUMPSTART | $5,000 |
| BALTIMORE HERITAGE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND (ON BEHALF OF JOHN DIEHL) | $3,500 |
| BAER SCHOOL (ON BEHALF OF MATT BOLYARD) | $3,125 |
| PRESERVATION MARYLAND | $3,000 |
| JUBILEE BALTIMORE (MARY ANN MEARS - SCULPTURE REPAIR) | $3,000 |
| HELPING UP MISSION (ON BEHALF OF JUSTIN WENGER) | $2,675 |
| SJAA (ON BEHALF OF MATT BOLYARD) | $2,500 |
| BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION (KLAUS) | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
55 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BPBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%
- PJPROJECT JUMPSTART INC7× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +142%
ROCA INC3× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue ×46
- ACABC CRAFT TRAINING TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.
The baltimore development corporation (bdc) is a non-profit organization that serves as the economic development agency for the city of baltimore. bdc's mission is to grow the city's economy in an inclusive, equitable manner by retaining,…
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
To raise and manage funds and to provide financial support to the university of baltimore. the foundation provides leadership, guidance, and support to the university's administration in advancing the mission and vision of the university.
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
To offer assistance and support to the homeless, poor and needy of baltimore with services contributing toward their independence and stability.
To assist the small business community through various efforts including consulting, financing, training and member networking opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Unity Hall Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 211 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT JUMPSTART INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HERITAGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOME PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION AND INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds MARIAN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR AMERICA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott 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 Southway Builders Charitable Trust Inc 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.
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Center for Watershed Protection Inc — 64% of income from government
- Baltimore Heritage Incorporated — 63% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation — 29% of income from government
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Baltimore Architecture Foundation Inc — 17% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 16% of income from government
- Jubilee Baltimore Inc — 16% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Homes for America Inc — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Women's Housing Coalition Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 0% of income from government
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.
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