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The Contino Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$311k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$570kYouth Development$530kEducation$453kReligion$329kHealth$135kCommunity Improvement$28kHuman Services$27kArts & Culture$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$561k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Johns Hopkins University$10,000
University of Maryland College Park Foundation$10,000
Notre Dame of Maryland 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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Pregnancy Support Center of Carroll County: $10k → 6%Catholic Charities: $5k → 19%Catholic Charities: $1k → 19%Catholic Charities: $1k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Contino Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 70%.

The Contino Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 27% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 28 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
24

Total granted

$1.8M
$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+51%

Still filing today

36%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ND
    NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +17%
  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • UO
    University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way
    one grant, 2019 · $134k
  • PS
    Pregnancy Support Center of Carroll County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +98%
  • AC
    ARCHBISHOP CURLEY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

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.

Health
2
Mercy Medical Center

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…

Health
3
St Paul Place Specialists Inc

To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.

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4
University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc

Umms foundation, inc. raises charitable funds to safeguard the future of health care excellence for university of maryland medical system.

Education
5
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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6
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.

Health
7
Umsj Health System Llc

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…

Health
8
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health
9
St Mary's University

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.

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10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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…

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11
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
12
University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical System Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Central MD: $525,000 · OtherUnited Way of Central MDCatholic Community of St Francis Xavier: $150,000 · OtherCatholic Community of St Francis XavierUnited Way: $134,062 · OtherUnited WaySaint James Academy: $74,123 · OtherCalvert Hall College HS: $71,000 · OtherWilmer Eye Institute: $50,000 · Other+36 more: $437,616 · Other+36 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $425,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTR…+1 more: $11,300 · PhilanthropyNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC: $95,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $20,000 · HealthHOWARD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $18,000 · Arts & CulturePregnancy Support Center of Carroll County Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL SHARERESOURCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · InternationalNEW PATHWAYS TO ENTERPRISE INC: $2,500 · International
Other$1,441,801Philanthropy$436,300Education$162,500Health$22,500Arts & Culture$18,000Human Services$17,000International$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $425,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATION WORKS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $11,300 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStella Maris Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL SHARERESOURCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOWARD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNCUFFED MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMercy Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 Pregnancy Support Center of Carroll County Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Marion I & Henry …T Rowe Price Program …Baltimore Community F…The Thomas B and Eliz…Edward St John Founda…The United Way of Cen…Batza Family Foundati…The O'Neil Family Fou…The Kahlert Foundatio…France-Merrick Founda…Middendorf Foundation…The Bunting Family Fo…
The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation IncMD28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Contino Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Contino Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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