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The Deering Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Deering Family Foundation Inc

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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$144kEnvironment$68kArts & Culture$66kHealth$64kSocial Science$60kEmployment$50kReligion$40kInternational$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Peabody Institute$60,000
Walnut Street Theater$15,000
THE BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MD$1,250
BRYN MAWR SCHOOL$1,250
Gilman School$1,000
YMCA Camp Belknap$1,000
Kingdom Rain$1,000
GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL$1,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art$1,000
Philadelphia Academy of Music$500
The Fund for Davidson$500
Philadelphia Animal Society$500
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra$500
CALVERT SCHOOL$250
The St Paul's Schools$200
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YMCA Camp Belknap: $1k → 9%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 22 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$279k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+31%

Still filing today

59%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $61k · revenue +16%
  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +82%
  • WS
    WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • PJ
    PROJECT JUMPSTART INCgraduated
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +55%
  • BC
    Baltimore Collegiate School
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k
  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INCgraduated
    4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +31%
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.

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University of Maryland Anesthesiology 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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2
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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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
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
5
University of Maryland Pediatric 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
6
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
7
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists 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
University of Maryland Eye 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
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 Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 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
12
University of Maryland Oncology 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is B'more Clubhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 40 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Baltimore Sy Leadership School: $70,000 · OtherBaltimore Sy Leadership SchoolPeabody Institute: $60,000 · OtherPeabody InstituteBaltimore Collegiate School: $31,000 · OtherBaltimore Collegiate SchoolEMBRACING OUR MISSION (ARCHDIOCES OF BALT): $30,000 · OtherEMBRACING OUR MISSION (ARCHDIOCES OF BALT)HELPING UP MISSION INC: $23,000 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCTHE BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MD: $13,000 · Other+14 more: $28,750 · Other+14 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $60,700 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $25,500 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HE…B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC: $25,500 · HealthB'MORE CLUBHO…ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER INC: $12,000 · HealthST JOSEPH MED…+1 more: $500 · HealthBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $43,200 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYM…WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $15,250 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STREET…+5 more: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 morePROJECT JUMPSTART INC: $50,000 · EmploymentPROJECT JU…CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $8,658 · EducationGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC: $6,000 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $3,000 · EducationStory of Our Schools: $1,500 · EducationKINGDOM RAIN: $3,000 · Religion
Other$255,750Environment$64,700Health$63,500Arts & Culture$63,450Employment$50,000Education$19,158Religion$3,000

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 budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $60,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT JUMPSTART INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $43,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetB'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC: $25,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $15,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $8,658 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINGDOM RAIN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $50 over 5y, 0.0% 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT JUMPSTART INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM RAIN ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Story of Our Schools ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 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.

T Rowe Price Program …France-Merrick Founda…Baltimore Community F…The Marion I & Henry …The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Deering Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deering Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Arundel Rivers Federation Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Deering Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Deering Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 40 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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