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The Baltimore Family Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k110 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESEARCH AMERICA | $70,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| 80-20 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | $5,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $4,000 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| SHADY HILL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENC | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Baltimore Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +52%- WIWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH3× · 2022–2024 · $154k · revenue +100%
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES7× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +15%
Funded once
MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +19%
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +82%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +109%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shakespeare in Clark Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
142 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. 142 of the 165 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
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- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds RESEARCHAMERICA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RAY WU MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 80-20 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stanley W Watson Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ford Foundation · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Harken Foundation · Friendship Fund 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 organization The Baltimore Family Fund 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.
- Coonamessett Farm Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Cape Cod Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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