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The Pennyghael Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$10,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$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
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JOHNS HOPKINS SHERIDAN LIBRARIES$5,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
GILMAN SCHOOL THE$5,000
CALVERT SCHOOL$4,000
LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS$4,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MD: $4k → 11%JEAN GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
45/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONWOODS 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…JULIA'S WINGS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthHopeWay Foundation: $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 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $2,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $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 ServicesBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $7,500 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 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 budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $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 budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJULIA'S WINGS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE BALTIMORE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $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 budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $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 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 budgetCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC HAMPTON INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAPS Charities: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pennyghael Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pennyghael Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 170%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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