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The Foundation for the Promotion of Individual Opportunity Inc at a glance

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The Foundation for the Promotion of Individual Opportunity 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$122kEnvironment$70kInternational$70kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kYouth Development$18kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS$20,000
CALVERT SCHOOL INC$11,400
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA$5,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$4,000
GILMAN SCHOOL INC$3,500
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER$3,000
YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC$3,000
VIRGIN ISLANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC$3,000
CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC$3,000
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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $5k → 12%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $4k → 12%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 12%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 12%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
MD
TN
TX
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 9% of The Foundation for the Promotion of Individual Opportunity Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Foundation for the Promotion of Individual Opportunity Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.2% 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 13 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$316k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+27%

Still filing today

85%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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

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EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BL
    BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +158%
  • CS
    CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +40%
  • GS
    GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    7× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • OH
    OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +24%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TB
    THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BALTIMORE CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +27%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
5
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
6
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
7
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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8
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
9
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
10
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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11
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Advocate Programs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

24 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. 24 of the 29 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $37,900 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATEDGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $23,500 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATEDCHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC: $21,000 · EducationCHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INCVIRGIN ISLANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $19,000 · EducationVIRGIN ISLANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL INCTeach for America Inc: $13,000 · EducationTeach for America IncTHE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BALTIMORE CITY INC: $5,000 · EducationSOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $70,399 · AnimalsBIG LIFE FOUNDATION …Mercy Corps: $45,500 · InternationalMercy CorpsALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $20,400 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR OPEN S…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONT…THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD …MARYLAND YOUTH CLUB OF AMERICA INC: $13,000 · OtherMARYLAND YOUTH CLU…ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR OPEN …A Romano: $5,000 · OtherA RomanoCHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $5,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE REDE…J Suty: $5,000 · OtherJ SutyFRIENDS OF THE BUDDHIST HERITAGE PROJECT INC: $4,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE BUD…YOUTH AS RESOURCES INC: $5,000 · OtherYOUTH AS RESOURCES…TEEN CHALLENGE OF BALTIMORE INC: $3,000 · OtherWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL: $3,000 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $18,300 · Human ServicesYOUTH ADV…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $14,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $5,917 · Community Improvement
Education$126,900Animals$70,399International$69,900Other$66,000Human Services$32,300Philanthropy$25,000Community Improvement$5,917

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 budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $70,399 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMercy Corps: $45,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $37,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $23,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $20,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGIN ISLANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $18,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND YOUTH CLUB OF AMERICA INC: $13,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $5,917 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS OF BALTIMORE CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH AS RESOURCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF BALTIMORE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute 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…T Rowe Price Program …Silicon Valley Commun…Verizon FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Foundation for the Promotion of Individual Opportunity 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 29 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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