· Private foundation
The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation
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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Roland Park Country School Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Bucknell University | $600,000 |
| Living Classrooms | $547,750 |
| Boys Latin School of Maryland Inc | $313,750 |
| Irvine Natural Science Center Inc | $250,000 |
| St Paul's School for Girls | $200,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $200,000 |
| Johns Hopkins Medicine | $200,000 |
| Washington & Lee University | $200,000 |
| United Community Centers Inc | $180,000 |
| Kennedy Krieger Foundation Inc | $150,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | $150,000 |
| Keep Punching | $150,000 |
| Irvine Natural Science Center Inc | $120,000 |
| Art with a Heart Inc | $120,000 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $667k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RPROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +18%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +64%
Bucknell University8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +65%
- MZMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -15%
- SOSociety of St Vincent DePaul Baltimone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
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How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 90 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.
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BIOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE HOLIDAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds KEEP PUNCHING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Edward St John Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Land Preservation Trust Inc: 64% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
- Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc: 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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