· Private foundation
The George E Babylon Jr and Ruth J Babylon Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL | $43,000 |
| CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS | $40,000 |
| BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
| GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of your 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 +88% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CSCAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $348k · revenue +86%
- BCBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +28%
- TTTHE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $230k · revenue ×20 · 93% of their budget
Funded once
- SFST FRANCES ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +67%
- BCBaltimore community Foundation - The Baltimore Rowing Clubone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.
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,…
To unite and educate members of the architectural profession
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Baltimore Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Timothy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION 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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 George E Babylon Jr and Ruth J Babylon Charitable 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.
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation 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.