· Private foundation
Mary Catherine Bunting 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of MARY CATHERINE BUNTING FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $667k
- $50k–250k38 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $981,432 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE | $750,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $435,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY | $270,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES | $258,000 |
| SHARE FOUNDATION EL SALVADOR | $240,000 |
| CARMELITE SISTERS OF BALTIMORE | $206,000 |
| CENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP | $200,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $199,688 |
| ST MARY'S SEMINARY & UNIVERSITY | $193,467 |
| NORTHERN KENYA FUND | $160,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI | $150,000 |
| LOYOLA SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $132,500 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $125,631 |
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 (FY18–24, $4.2M) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 44 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +21%
- HCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $680k · revenue +13%
- CCCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $670k · revenue +198%
Funded once
- BSBON SECOURS OF MARYLAND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $400k
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $250k
- SMStella Maris Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +44%
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.
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…
Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
Catholic charities of the archdiocese of washington is the area's leading provider of comprehensive human services, offered to individuals and families in need, through 47 programs in 29 locations in the district of columbia, montgomery,…
To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.
Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…
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…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Our mission is to ensure the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of women throughout the state. the women's law center of md works towards this goal by providing direct legal representation, information and referral services,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northern Kenya Fund. 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 17. 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 12% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 99 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 ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE ACCESS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OAKCREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds Ignatian Solidarity Network ↗
- Who funds Stella Maris Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENYA FUND ↗
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: The Bunting Family Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Batza Family 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 Mary Catherine Bunting 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.
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Southwest Partnership Inc — 50% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Central Baltimore Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc — 38% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Araminta Freedom Initiative — 26% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Healthy Neighborhoods Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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.
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