How much did STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC grant in FY2019?

Community Improvement$127kArts & Culture$60kEducation$51kHuman Services$34kCrime & Legal$30kYouth Development$20kRecreation & Sports$17kHealth$10kEnvironment$5kOther$216k

02FY2019 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

Under $10k11 grants · $65k
$10k–50k14 grants · $145k
$50k–250k2 grants · $164k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

NIHNIAID$100,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC$63,500
PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC$12,500
BALTIMORE BAR FOUNDATION INC$12,500
IT TAKES ONE INC$10,000
ROB'S BARBERSHIP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CIVIC WORKS$10,000
GREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC$10,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$10,000
JOY BALTIMORE CORP$10,000
MTM FOUNDATION$10,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$10,000
DENT EDUCATION INC$10,000
PURPOSE DRIVEN JOURNEY INC$10,000
PROJECT PLASE INC$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$154k · 4 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +175% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$154k

$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+175%

+47%

Still filing today

75%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

FP
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC
2× · 2018–2019 · $117k · revenue +175%
HL
HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP
2× · 2018–2019 · $12k · revenue +197%
CF
CHILL FOUNDATION
2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +57%

Funded once

EB
EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE AND CULTURAL CENTER INC
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +21%
WA
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +683%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue +45%

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.

Baltimore Corps Inc

To enlist talent to accelerate social innovation in baltimore and advance a citywide agenda for equity and racial justice.

Employment

Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc

Committed to anti-racist practices and to black leadership.

Human Services

Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

To provide a strong, unified and effective voice for the business community in the functional area of urban affairs and public policy, business services and information, and economic development, thereby promoting the Baltimore Region as…

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Baltimore Green Space a Land Trustfor Community-Managed Open Space in

Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.

Environment

Baltimore Area Health Education Center

To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings see sched o

Health

Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, (see sch. o) embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the…

Arts & Culture

Family League of Baltimore City Inc

Family League of Baltimore works collaboratively to support data-informed, community-driven solutions that align resources to dismantle the systemic barriers which limit the possibilities for children, families, and communities

Human Services

The Boys and Girls Clubs

Boys & girls clubs of metropolitan baltimore (bgcmb) provides youth development programs and services for youth ages 6 to 18 during the critical out-of-school time hours. our nine club locations are community-based and led by paid,…

Youth Development

City of Baltimore Development Corporatio

The city of baltimore development corporation (bdc) is contracted with the city of baltimore to provide economic development services.

Community Improvement

Metropolitan Baltimore Council of

The mission of the metropolititan baltimore council afl-cio unions is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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Baltimore Design School Inc

Baltimore design school (bds) fosters creativity and develops the academic and critical thinking skills of 6th through 12th grade students and prepares them for admission to college and careers in the design fields of architecture,…

Education

Baltimore Clayworks Inc

Baltimore clayworks is a non-profit ceramic art center that exists to develop, sustain, and promote an artist-centered community that provides outstanding artistic, educational, and collaborative programs in ceramic arts.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wide Angle Youth Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Savannah College of Art and Design. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund close more than the field — 11% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

11%

4/37

the rest of the field

10%

3,135/31,308

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

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

22/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$248,455Community Improvement$126,752Arts & Culture$60,000Education$51,000Human Services$33,933Crime & Legal$30,000Youth Development$20,012

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.

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 Foundation IncMD31× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable 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 organisation STRONG CITY BALTIMORE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ANEW INSPIRED CHANGE ORGANIZATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463765911 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ANEW INSPIRED CHANGE ORGANIZATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 38% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Strong City Baltimore Inc?

Find your warmest path to Strong City Baltimore Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Strong City Baltimore Inc?

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STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Strong City Baltimore Inc?

More from the funding graph