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The Emmert Hobbs Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$455k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$809kHuman Services$363kArts & Culture$220kReligion$215kEducation$186kFood & Nutrition$151kHousing & Shelter$125kYouth Development$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $233k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSISTANCE CTR FOR TOWSON CHURCHES$100,000
INNER COUNTY OUTREACH$50,000
FIRST FRUITS FARM INC$38,000
MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL$25,000
GBMC FOUNDATION$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
LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES$10,000
MISSION OF MERCY INC$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
DEEP ROOTS$10,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISSION OF MERCY INC: $25k → 6%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%DEEP ROOTS: $10k → 10%MISSION OF MERCY INC: $10k → 6%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%MISSION OF MERCY INC: $10k → 6%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $15k → 19%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $100k → 7%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $100k → 7%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $50k → 7%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10k → 19%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $5k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $20k → 7%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $15k → 7%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $15k → 7%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $10k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%NIGHT OF PEACE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $5k → 11%WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $5k → 11%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 30 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
9

Total granted

$2.1M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+36%

Still filing today

63%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IC
    INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +103%
  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +49%
  • SU
    STEVENSON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • AB
    ABERDEEN BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CS
    CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +61%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +36%
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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Moveable Feast Inc

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…

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2
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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3
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

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.

Health
4
Baltimore Medical System Inc

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.

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5
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
6
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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7
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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8
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

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.

Health
9
University of Maryland Neurology 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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10
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
11
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gbmc Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 46 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINEASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES INC: $110,000 · OtherASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES INCABERDEEN BIBLE CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherABERDEEN BIBLE CHURCHHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC: $92,500 · OtherHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB HARFORD COUNTY: $85,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB HARFORD COUNTYTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $65,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $48,000 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Other+12 more: $214,000 · Other+12 moreINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $320,000 · Human ServicesINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INCTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH…CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $52,800 · Human ServicesCAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDAT…MISSION OF MERCY INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MERCY INCWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $25,000 · Human Services+5 more: $45,000 · Human Services+5 moreBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE …ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGBMC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthGBMC FOUND…Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc: $80,000 · HealthUpper Ches…Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $25,000 · HealthMt Washing…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $48,000 · Food & NutritionSTUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $8,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $46,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $12,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,114,500Human Services$547,800Arts & Culture$215,000Health$206,000Education$130,000Food & Nutrition$61,000Youth Development$59,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $320,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC: $92,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $52,800 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $48,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $46,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGINGLIFE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExtreme Family Outreach Minist: $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $12,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHistorical Society Harford Cou: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNIGHT OF PEACE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSTEINWAY SERIES AT SILO HILL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…T Rowe Price Program …Louis & Phyllis Fried…The Harry and Jeanett…The Dresher Foundatio…Herman & Walter Samue…Nora Roberts Foundati…Philip a Zaffere Foun…The Joseph Meyerhoff …Edward St John Founda…The Marion I & Henry …
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD31× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The Emmert Hobbs Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Emmert Hobbs 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 46 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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