· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | $5,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $4,000 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENC | $3,000 |
| SHADY HILL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| MIT ALUMNI FUND | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of The Baltimore Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
How this is measured
142 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. 142 of the 165 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Baltimore Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baltimore Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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