· Private foundation
The Orokawa Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC | $1,176,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MD | $500,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $425,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $335,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $300,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250,000 |
| ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| PAUL'S PLACE OUTREACH CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| ROCA BALTIMORE LLC | $150,000 |
| THE FAMILY TREE | $147,180 |
| NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION | $112,500 |
| INSIDEOUT WRITERS | $100,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
65 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +61%
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +9%
- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION DR RODone grant, 2023 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $400k
- LCLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION TOMMOROW'S PROMISE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $300k
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 arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
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…
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.
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, 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,…
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 33 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) — 5% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 92 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDEOUT WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds Itineris Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA PALLIN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation
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 Orokawa 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County Inc — 21% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Jubilee Baltimore Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation 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.