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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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$180kHealth$74kEducation$69kHousing & Shelter$62kEmployment$57kYouth Development$50kCommunity Improvement$37kHuman Services$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$83k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WYPR$10,000
BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICE CORP (A1 HATHAWAY - THURGOOD MARSHALL SCHOOL)$6,717
NHP FOUNDATION$5,000
BALTIMORE HERITAGE$5,000
HOMES FOR AMERICA$5,000
PROJECT JUMPSTART$5,000
ROCA BALTIMORE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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
BALTIMORE UNITY HALL$2,500
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTREY$2,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $2k → 11%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $3k → 11%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $2k → 11%SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (VAN BROOKS): $3k → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $2k → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $1k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL: $2k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL (ON BEHALF OF DOMINICK DUNNIGAN): $2k → 19%THE DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE (ON BEHALF OF JOHN DIEHL): $1k → 19%MARIAN HOUSE: $3k → 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

MN
MI
NY
IA
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$474k · 55 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
121

Total granted

$474k
$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+26%

Still filing today

60%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BP
    BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%
  • PJ
    PROJECT JUMPSTART INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +142%
  • ROCA INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • AC
    ABC CRAFT TRAINING TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • GB
    GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue ×46
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
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
2
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

—
3
Baltimore Development Corporation

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,…

Community Improvement
4
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

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…

—
5
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc

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.

Education
6
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
7
Rebuilding Together Baltimore Inc

Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.

Housing & Shelter
8
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

—
9
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

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…

Education
11
Manna House Inc

To offer assistance and support to the homeless, poor and needy of baltimore with services contributing toward their independence and stability.

—
12
Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce

To assist the small business community through various efforts including consulting, financing, training and member networking opportunities.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 211 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
44/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCA: $17,500 · Other+162 more: $448,773 · Other+162 moreBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE PUB…SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR T…OPEN WORKS INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureOPEN WORKS IN…BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $4,000 · Arts & CultureArtspace Projects Inc: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureJUBILEE BALTIMORE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME PARTNERSHIP INC: $9,500 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR AMERICA INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE WOMEN'S HOUSING COALITION INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $500 · Housing & ShelterTHREAD INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INC: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT JUMPSTART INC: $39,500 · EmploymentBALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationMARYLAND CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION AND INNOVATION: $5,500 · EducationFRANCIS SCOTT KEY ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $4,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $4,500 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $3,210 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationPHCS INC: $2,500 · Education+6 more: $4,800 · EducationGREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementINNOVATION WORKS INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $2,871 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE UNITY HALL INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementLIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC: $1,500 · Community Improvement
Other$466,273Arts & Culture$88,500Housing & Shelter$46,500Youth Development$44,000Employment$39,500Education$38,010Community Improvement$26,871

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT JUMPSTART INC: $39,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHREAD INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetROCA INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE BALTIMORE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE HERITAGE INCORPORATED: $13,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOME PARTNERSHIP INC: $9,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN HOUSE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION AND INNOVATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN WORKS INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANIM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATION WORKS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCIS SCOTT KEY ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $4,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe William S Baer School: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $3,210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOUSING COALITION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArtspace Projects Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRINK AT THE WELL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $2,871 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE UNITY HALL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FEDERAL HILL AND FELL'S POINT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHCS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES: $1,808 over 1y, 0.1% 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 BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT JUMPSTART INC ↗
  • Who funds THREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCA INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE BALTIMORE 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 BALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE FOUNDATION 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 MARIAN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION AND INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANIM INC ↗

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 United Way of Cen…The Abell Foundation …The Morris Goldseker …The Harry and Jeanett…Annie E Casey Foundat…Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Foundati…T Rowe Price Program …Brown Advisory Charit…The Marion I & Henry …
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD75.4× affinity38 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 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

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 Southway Builders Charitable Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southway Builders Charitable Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 Southway Builders Charitable Trust Inc?

Find your warmest path to Southway Builders Charitable Trust 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 211 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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