Maryland · Private foundation
The Plank Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $21,800
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Plank Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $830k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $665k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $770k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $8.2M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $3.0M | 54% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $18M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fight for Children Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 75% |
| Best Is Ahead Foundation Inc | $1,825,000 | 3 | 80% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Partnership | $1,000,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Collegebound Foundation | $1,000,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Westlake Youth Athletic Organization In | $650,000 | 5 | 52% |
| Center for Urban Families Inc | $550,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Plank Foundation for Entrepreneurship Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 94% |
| The St Pauls Schools Inc | $360,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Baltimore Civic Fund Inc | $311,250 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 54 grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Plank Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc · The Stephen & Renee Bisciotti Foundation · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc
How this is measured
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About The Plank Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Plank Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Plank Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $1,731,377 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Plank Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (70%), Human Services (7%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are The Plank Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fight for Children Inc ($2.0M), Best Is Ahead Foundation Inc ($1.8M), Johns Hopkins University ($1.3M).
- Does The Plank Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Plank Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Plank Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc.
- Where is The Plank Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Plank Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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