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System Source Foundation Inc

$895
Granted FY2020
13
Grants FY2020
13
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$50
Largest grant, FY2020
$175
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$17510%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10510%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$10010%
Pennon Organization$6010%
Towson University Foundation Inc$5010%
Westminster Municipal Band Inc$501n/a
Special Olympics Maryland Inc$5010%
Baltimore Public Media Corporation$3010%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$2510%
Carroll County Food Sunday Inc$2510%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($225), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget System Source Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Food Bank: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennon Organization: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTowson University Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Maryland Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Public Media Corporation: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarroll County Food Sunday Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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.

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How do I get to System Source Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to System Source 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.

About System Source Foundation Inc

How much does System Source Foundation Inc give?
System Source Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $895 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does System Source Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (34%), Arts & Culture (27%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).
Who are System Source Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: The Maryland Food Bank Inc ($175), World Central Kitchen Inc ($105), Central Pennsylvania Food Bank ($100).
Which funders back the same organizations as System Source Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is System Source Foundation Inc based?
System Source Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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