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The George E Babylon Jr and Ruth J Babylon Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$463kArts & Culture$320kPhilanthropy$245kEnvironment$175kHealth$114kReligion$75kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $20k → 4%Gilchrist Hospice Care: $10k → 11%BALTIMORE INTNL SEAFARERS CENTER: $20k → 19%THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $10k → 4%Gilchrist Hospice Care: $10k → 11%BALTIMORE INTNL SEAFARERS CENTER: $18k → 19%THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION: $40k → 6%American Trauma Society Inc: $10k → 4%GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE: $7k → 11%BALTIMORE INTNL SEAFARERS CENTER: $15k → 19%THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION: $40k → 6%AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $10k → 4%Baltimore Intnl Seafarers Center: $10k → 19%THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $10k → 4%CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%The Timothy Foundation: $20k → 6%AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $10k → 4%CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%Cambridge School: $50k → 11%Cambridge School: $50k → 11%CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $43k → 11%CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $30k → 11%St Frances Academy: $50k → 19%Cambridge School: $25k → 11%Baltimore Community Foundation - Gilman School: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $50k → 11%Baltimore Community Foundation - Lyric Foundation: $10k → 19%CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS: $40k → 11%Baltimore community Foundation - The Baltimore Rowing Club: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $40k → 11%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $40k → 11%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $40k → 11%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $40k → 11%Baltimore Clayworks Inc: $40k → 11%University of Baltimore Foundation: $27k → 19%CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS: $40k → 11%Baltimore Clayworks Inc: $35k → 11%Baltimore Clayworks Inc: $35k → 11%CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS: $20k → 11%CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS: $20k → 11%CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS: $20k → 11%Cylburn Arboretum Association: $15k → 11%Cylburn Arboretum Association: $10k → 11%Cylburn Arboretum Association: $10k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +67% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.3M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+67%

Still filing today

89%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CS
    CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $348k · revenue +86%
  • BC
    BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +28%
  • TT
    THE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $230k · revenue ×20 · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • SF
    ST FRANCES ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +67%
  • BC
    Baltimore Community Foundation - Lyric Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Inc

Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.

Religion
2
Baltimore Tree Trust Inc

To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.

Environment
3
Five Smooth Stones Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
4
Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Inc

To unite and educate members of the architectural profession

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5
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment
6
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

Arts & Culture
7
Cfa Society Baltimore Inc

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…

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8
Baltimore Montessori Inc

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.

Education
9
Baltimore Corps Inc

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…

Employment
10
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

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…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Baltimore Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC: $348,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDAT…+2 more: $13,000 · EducationBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $320,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INCTHE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION: $230,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TIMOTHY FOUNDA…CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $175,000 · EnvironmentCYLBURN ARBORE…ST FRANCES ACADEMY: $50,000 · OtherST FRANCES…GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $32,000 · OtherGILCHRIST …Baltimore Community Foundation - Mt Vernon Ladies Assn: $15,000 · OtherBaltimore …Baltimore Community Foundation - Lyric Foundation: $10,000 · OtherBaltimore …Baltimore Community Foundation - Gilman School: $10,000 · OtherBaltimore …Baltimore community Foundation - The Baltimore Rowing Club: $10,000 · OtherBaltimore …THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $82,000 · HealthBALTIMORE INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS CENTER: $74,500 · Religion
Education$388,000Arts & Culture$320,000Philanthropy$230,000Environment$175,000Other$132,000Health$82,000Religion$74,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC: $348,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $320,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetTHE TIMOTHY FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 6y, 93% of budgetCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $175,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $82,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBALTIMORE INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS CENTER: $74,500 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $500 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Associated Jewish Cha…Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…The Abell Foundation …T Rowe Price Program …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 George E Babylon Jr and Ruth J Babylon Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George E Babylon Jr and Ruth J Babylon Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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