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SylvanLaureate Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

International$4.0MEducation$2.5MArts & Culture$1.6MPhilanthropy$660kHuman Services$405kPublic Benefit$300kHealth$292kCommunity Improvement$125kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$8,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$8,625
02The need
03

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 (FY17–20, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $50k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 6%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL MARYLA: $100k → 11%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 6%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $15k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL MARYLA: $10k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL MARYLA: $10k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $25k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $25k → 19%MARIAN HOUSE INC: $5k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
NY
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 37 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 36 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
55

Total granted

$8.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+43%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TB
    THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +102%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +25%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $135k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +22%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +61%

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.

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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 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
3
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
4
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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5
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
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 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
8
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
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 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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12
University of Maryland Emergency 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…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Leaders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ugandan Water Project. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr16%3%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr11%55%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/81
the rest of the field
14%
5,902/41,768

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

78 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. 78 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
60/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $3,935,786 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION+10 more — $119,181 · InternationalJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,105,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTeach for America Inc — $300,000 · EducationTeach for America IncUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FO…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $120,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $92,500 · EducationNEW LEADERS INC — $90,000 · Education+8 more — $160,000 · Education+8 moreTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $1,170,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE C…BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPH…CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $55,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $117,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTHE RICHARD W RILEY INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT POLI — $250,000 · OtherTHE RICHARD W …BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · OtherBALTIMORE SCHO…CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $142,500 · OtherCRISTO REY JES…LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSRO…RYAN BANKS ACADEMY — $100,000 · OtherRYAN BANKS ACA…STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $75,000 · OtherSTRONG CITY BA…THE FAMILY TREE INC — $70,000 · OtherONEPEOPLE INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE RICHARD W RILEY INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT — $50,000 · OtherBALTIMORE CORPS INC — $50,000 · OtherBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS MARYLAND INC — $50,000 · Other+25 more — $265,100 · Other+25 moreBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $360,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $175,000 · PhilanthropyKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyThe William S Baer School — $25,000 · PhilanthropyYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — $135,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation — $100,000 · HealthSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $30,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $20,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Health+5 more — $11,400 · Health
International$4,054,967Education$2,342,500Arts & Culture$1,427,500Other$1,362,600Philanthropy$660,000Human Services$300,000Health$276,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $3,935,786 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $1,170,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $360,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $120,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRYAN BANKS ACADEMY — $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $92,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTilting Futures Incorporated — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC — $70,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA ACHIEVES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS MARYLAND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innovation Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $32,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $28,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe William S Baer School — $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetDO SOMETHING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 F…Associated Jewish Cha…France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…T Rowe Price Program …Brown Advisory Charit…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Harry and Jeanett…The Jacob and Hilda B…Patricia and Mark Jos…The Joseph Meyerhoff …The Bunting Family Fo…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD48.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation

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 SylvanLaureate Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
  • International Youth Foundation — 17% of income from government
  • Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Marian House 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
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
14report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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