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The Pennyghael Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$213k
Granted FY2018
71
Grants FY2018
11
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Health$105kEducation$71kEnvironment$45kPhilanthropy$45kArts & Culture$35kFood & Nutrition$27kScience & Tech$25kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2018 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k67 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL$30,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$10,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$10,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$9,000
WOODS HOLE FOUNDATION INC$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION (UMBF INC)$6,500
WALTERS ART MUSEUM THE$5,500
JOHNS HOPKINS SHERIDAN LIBRARIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS$5,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
GILMAN SCHOOL THE$5,000
FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MD$4,000
CALVERT SCHOOL$4,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%PETTENGILL HOUSE INC THE: $3k → 10%MAPS CHARITIES: $1k → 14%PETTENGILL HOUSE INC THE: $3k → 10%JEAN GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MD: $4k → 11%JEAN GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC

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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$355k · 60 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
12

Total granted

$355k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $62k · revenue +58%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +57%
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CENTER OF CAPE COD
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FF
    FUEL FUND OF MD
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • GF
    GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +24%

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
7
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsLand Conservation Organizat…Substance Abuse TreatmentHomeless Services & ShelterDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Community Arts OrganizationsUnited Way FederationsFood Pantries & AssistanceGovernment Accountability R…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Health CentersIndependent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr16%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,789

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.

04the grantee network

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 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
44/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCWOODS HOLE FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 · OtherWOODS HOLE FOUNDATION INCWALTERS ART MUSEUM THE — $11,000 · OtherWALTERS ART MUSEUM THEJOHNS HOPKINS SHERIDAN LIBRARIES — $8,000 · OtherLADEW TOPIARY GARDENS — $7,000 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $15,000 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONBROWN UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · Other+33 more — $90,000 · Other+33 moreTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $62,000 · HealthTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HO…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,750 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer I…HopeWay Foundation — $4,000 · HealthJULIA'S WINGS FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $7,500 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL…GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $7,200 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL …Foxcroft School — $7,000 · EducationFoxcroft Schoo…THE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE MARJOT FOU…TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PH…GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $3,500 · EducationGARRISON FORES…Station North Tool Library Inc — $2,750 · EducationTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC — $2,000 · Education+4 more — $4,000 · Education+4 moreIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $3,000 · EnvironmentQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $2,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC — $1,400 · Environment+2 more — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,500 · PhilanthropyThe Pettengill House Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA — $4,000 · Human ServicesMAPS Charities — $1,000 · Human ServicesMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMPT FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSHERMAN PLAYERS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC — $1,600 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAMPTON INCORPORATED — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$194,500Health$75,750Education$55,450Environment$32,400Philanthropy$26,500Human Services$20,000Arts & Culture$16,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $62,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pettengill House Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROCA INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHopeWay Foundation — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE BALTIMORE INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJULIA'S WINGS FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHREAD INC — $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC — $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERDS CLINIC INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC — $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC HAMPTON INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

France-Merrick Founda…Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…Middendorf Foundation…The Kahlert Foundatio…Boston Foundation IncFancy Hill FoundationAc and Penney Hubbard…Buckingham School Fre…Campbell Foundation I…Dr Frank C Marino Fou…
France-Merrick Foundation IncMD23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Fancy Hill Foundation · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Buckingham School Frederick County Md · Campbell Foundation Inc · Dr Frank C Marino 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 Pennyghael 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.

2024
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no gov · 170%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Jubilee Baltimore Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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