· Private foundation
The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of THE MORRIS A AND CLARISSE B MECHANIC 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 $10k26 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER STAGE | $20,000 |
| MD FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL MD | $20,000 |
| HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUND | $20,000 |
| PIKESVILLE CENTER | $20,000 |
| MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MD | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PROJECT PLASE | $10,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MD | $10,000 |
| INNOVATION WORKS | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS YAP | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S OUTREACH CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- HCHARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +81% · 31% of their budget
- TMTHE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +3%
- PPPROJECT PLASE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PDPORT DISCOVERY ADA ACCESSIBILITYone grant, 2019 · $50k
- MCMORGAN CLASS68 ENDOWMENTone grant, 2022 · $15k
- DPDAYSPRING PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
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 offer assistance and support to the homeless, poor and needy of baltimore with services contributing toward their independence and stability.
44-Bed licensed nursing home in Hyattsville, Maryland that provides nursing care services to its residents
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
Develop and manage affordable housing for low-income individuals and families in baltimore city who are affected by psychiatric disabilities.
Housing unlimited, inc. is a non-profit dedicated to providing affordable, permanent housing opportunities and independent living for adults in mental health recovery.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Humility House extends the healing ministry of Jesus by improving the health of our communities with emphasis on people who are poor and underserved.
Our mission is to provide services of the highest quality for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities and related disorders including autism that optimize each individual's independence and capabilities, ensure…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.
The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…
The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve, and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…
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 Barrier-Free 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 70 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 HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PLASE INC ↗
- Who funds Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HEALTHY START INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS 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: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Sharebaby Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Nora Roberts Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Huethermcclelland 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 Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic 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.
- Project Plase Inc — 48% of income from government
- Baltimore Healthy Start Inc — 45% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 2% of income from government
- Marian House 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.