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The Baltimore Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Baltimore Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
7
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$1.2MEnvironment$40kPhilanthropy$16kHealth$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kInternational$5kCivil Rights$5kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0
02FY2018 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k11 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTIMORE FAMILTY DONOR FUND$1,200,375
RAINFOREST TRUST$10,000
WOMEN OF NOTE$5,000
OCEANITES$5,000
NRDC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$3,000
AMERICARES$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,000
RED CROSS$2,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$2,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,000
LIGHT THE WALK FOR LEUKEMIA$200
NE SIGHT SERVICES$200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RED CROSS: $3k → 15%NRDC: $5k → 17%BALTIMORE FAMILTY DONOR FUND: $1.2M → 8%WOMEN OF NOTE: $5k → 11%AMERICARES: $3k → 9%RAINFOREST TRUST: $15k → 6%RED CROSS: $2k → 15%COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: $2k → 17%WOMEN OF NOTE: $5k → 11%AMERICARES: $2k → 9%RAINFOREST TRUST: $10k → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 15%COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: $500 → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $665 → 15%NE SIGHT SERVICES: $200 → 15%UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $15k → 15%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3k → 15%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3k → 15%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.
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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 9 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$68k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+150%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyHealthEducationOther
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

  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +100%
  • O
    OceanitesInc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +150%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • TG
    THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +44%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
5
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
8
Parliamentarians for Global Action

Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…

International
9
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
10
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
11
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rainforest Trust; the most unlike its peers is OceanitesInc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE FAMILTY DONOR FUND: $1,200,375 · OtherBALTIMORE FAMILTY DONOR FUND+8 more: $24,565 · OtherRAINFOREST TRUST: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · InternationalUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOceanitesInc: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $2,500 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 · Civil RightsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Other$1,224,940International$29,500Philanthropy$15,000Environment$15,000Civil Rights$4,500Health$3,000Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOceanitesInc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Baltimore Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baltimore Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 18 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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