· Public charity
The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $127,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $152,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LILLIE MAY CARROLL JACKSON PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THREAD INC | $10,000 |
| WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC | $10,000 |
| ARTS EVERY DAY INC | $10,000 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERED SOCIETY (YES) | $10,000 |
| HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $10,000 |
| EVERYMAN THEATRE | $10,000 |
| THE INGENUITY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| PAUL'S PLACE INC | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +64%- FSFRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $500k · revenue +22%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +68%
Funded once
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $3.8M · revenue +11%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated2× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +75%
- BSBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -22%
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.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
Baltimore collegiate school for boys provides the finest liberal arts education possible to baltimore's next generation of young men, ensuring that they will become responsible citizens trained to lead and serve our community, our nation,…
Collegebound empowers baltimore city schools' students to successfully pursue and complete a college degree or other post-secondary options. as a trusted advocate for city-wide college access, retention, and graduation, we provide…
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust and the most unlike its peers is Open Society Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
35 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 THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds PRT REACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds The Ingenuity Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THERE GOES MY HERO INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Empowerment Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS EVERY DAY INC ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Sisters Circle 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey 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 Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 16% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% 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.
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