How much did The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2025

baltimore

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $20k
$10k–50k3 grants · $61k

$20,468

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC$20,468
FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR$20,468
BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC$20,468
PROJECT PLASE INC$6,823
INGENUITY PROJECT INC$6,823
ANIMAL ALLIES RESCUE FOUNDATION INC$6,823

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 12%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$523k · 13 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$523k

$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+173%

Still filing today

77%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

BS
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
3× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +50%
CF
COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $43k · revenue +75%
SS
STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC
2× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +247%

Funded once

LC
LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $21k
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NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +302%
JH
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST
one grant, 2022 · $11k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Somebody Cares Baltimore Inc

The mission of Somebody Cares Baltimore is to connect people to opportunities to serve their community, and connect organizations to work together.

Religion

Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, (see sch. o) embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the…

Arts & Culture

Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development

Leadership Maryland Inc

Building a better maryland takes a special kind of strength-the kind of strength you'll find every day in leaders throughout our local businesses and communities. at leadership maryland, we harness that strength by bringing together local…

Public Benefit

The Park School of Baltimore

To provide education to students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Education

Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services

Family League of Baltimore City Inc

Family League of Baltimore works collaboratively to support data-informed, community-driven solutions that align resources to dismantle the systemic barriers which limit the possibilities for children, families, and communities

Human Services

Baltimore Corps Inc

To enlist talent to accelerate social innovation in baltimore and advance a citywide agenda for equity and racial justice.

Employment

Manna House Inc

To offer assistance and support to the homeless, poor and needy of baltimore with services contributing toward their independence and stability.

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Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college (see schedule o)

Education

Maryland Center On Economic Policy Inc

The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.

Social Science

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc

To provide quality patient care, educate medical students & residents, and engage in medical research to improve the lives of our patients and our community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

12%

1,311/11,141

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.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

16/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$294,794Food & Nutrition$76,772Arts & Culture$73,591Human Services$61,293Youth Development$60,036Education$51,185Housing & Shelter$43,170Animals$6,823

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium

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 organisation The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation 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.

2024

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6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEARTS PLACE SERVICES INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274352352 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEARTS PLACE SERVICES INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation?

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The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation?

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