· Private foundation
The Contino Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Central Maryland | $125,000 |
| Christo Rey Jesuit High School | $40,000 |
| Catholic Community of St Francis Xavier | $35,000 |
| St Joseph Parish | $25,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $20,000 |
| Sanctuary Ministries of London | $15,000 |
| University of Maryland College Park Foundation | $10,000 |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | $10,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $10,000 |
| B & O Railroad Museum | $6,000 |
| Towson University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Calvert Hall College of Baltimore City | $5,000 |
| global shake resource foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 11% of The Contino Family Foundation’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, 95% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less 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.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- NDNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +17%
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +6%- UOUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- UWUnited Wayone grant, 2019 · $134k
- ACARCHBISHOP CURLEY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
- PSPregnancy Support Center of Carroll County Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +98%
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.
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…
To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.
Umms foundation, inc. raises charitable funds to safeguard the future of health care excellence for university of maryland medical system.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.
The organization's mission is guided by our catholic health care tradition of loving service and compassionate care. as an integral member of umms, we provide access to a full spectrum of health care services that improves the health of…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The mission of umbwms is to provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve. our vision is to be the preferred regional medical center through nationally recognized quality, personalized service and outstanding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Morgan Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 56 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 THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Support Center of Carroll County Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Stella Maris Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SHARERESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE 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: The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Batza Family Foundation Inc · The O'Neil Family Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family 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 Contino Family Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% 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.