· Private foundation
The Emmert Hobbs 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSISTANCE CTR FOR TOWSON CHURCHES | $100,000 |
| INNER COUNTY OUTREACH | $50,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM INC | $38,000 |
| GBMC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB HARFORD COUNTY | $20,000 |
| HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE | $12,500 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE | $12,000 |
| CASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES | $10,000 |
| MISSION OF MERCY INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $508k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- ICINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +103%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +49%
- SUSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ABABERDEEN BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $100k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +36%- CSCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +61%
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.
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
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…
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Baltimore medical system is deeply committed to improving the health wellness and the quality of life in the communities we serve by providing safe, high quality, accessible and affordable health care.
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.
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…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care 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…
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, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gbmc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Possibilities Foundation. 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 34 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) — 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 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 46 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 INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGINGLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Extreme Family Outreach Minist ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Andrew County Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK 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 · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Louis & Phyllis Friedman Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Dresher Foundation Inc · Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc
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 Emmert Hobbs 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.
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc — 38% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Assistance Network Inc — 7% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% 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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