· Private foundation
The Madeline Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $294k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $925k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CYLBURN ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION | $650,999 |
| BALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC | $273,668 |
| THREAD | $153,506 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $153,506 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND | $153,506 |
| REBUILD METRO | $153,506 |
| BRYN MAWR SCHOOL | $114,336 |
| WILLIAM S BAER SCHOOL | $99,723 |
| BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $91,879 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES | $76,193 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $76,193 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $76,193 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $76,193 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $63,867 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $49,301 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +55% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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; $8k 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
- CACYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +169% · 56% of their budget
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $628k · revenue +64%
- TITHREAD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $604k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- GSGREEN STREET ACADEMY INCone grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The waldorf school of baltimore educates and inspires children to think, act, and feel with depth, imagination, and purpose.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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…
Devoted to intellectual inquiry, a collaborative spirit of learning, and an appreciation for the diversity of human experience, the park school of baltimore is a community founded on positive expectations of our students and respect for…
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Circle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 29 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 CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD METRO INC ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The William S Baer School ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Sisters Circle Inc ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPTIONS & PLANNING ENTERPRISES 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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · Clayton Baker Trust · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Arbor Dog Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · France-Merrick Foundation 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 Madeline 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.
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland 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.