· Public charity
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARFORD & CECIL COUNTIES | $210,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND | $140,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $130,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WESTMINSTER | $120,000 |
| PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $115,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $115,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $107,881 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY BGC | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 60% of your 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.
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 87% of The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore’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. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 97% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +118%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +74%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CRCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +51%
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 Boys & Girls Club of Washington County and the most unlike its peers is The Salvation Army Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Westminster ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK CO ↗
- Who funds DMV PAL INC ↗
- Who funds It Takes A Village to Help Our Children Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR 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: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore 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.
- It Takes a Village to Help Our Children Inc — 46% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% 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.