How much did THE PLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE PLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

baltimoreworkforcelakelandwestportworkingbrooklynvolunteer fire

2019

volunteer firepledgejohnspaul'schurchwestlake youthyouth athletic

2020

blooming celebrationpledgechurch

2021

firepaul'schurch

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$250k+2 grants · $1.5M

$21,800

Median grant

States reached

$9.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

BEST IS AHEAD FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$500,000
JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
WESTLAKE YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$75,000
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$21,800
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$19,577
MAPLEWOOD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
GLYNDON FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
CHESTNUT RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$30M · 28 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$30M

$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+18%

Still filing today

50%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterReligionOther

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

BI
BEST IS AHEAD FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +218% · 80% of their budget
GW
GREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP
4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
CF
CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES
4× · 2017–2021 · $550k · revenue +70%

Funded once

FF
FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC
one grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue -54% · 75% of their budget
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
one grant, 2019 · $500k
PF
PLANK FOUNDATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -99% · 94% of their budget

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.

Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

To provide a strong, unified and effective voice for the business community in the functional area of urban affairs and public policy, business services and information, and economic development, thereby promoting the Baltimore Region as…

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Visit Baltimore Inc

Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.

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The Boys and Girls Clubs

Boys & girls clubs of metropolitan baltimore (bgcmb) provides youth development programs and services for youth ages 6 to 18 during the critical out-of-school time hours. our nine club locations are community-based and led by paid,…

Youth Development

Family League of Baltimore City Inc

Family League of Baltimore works collaboratively to support data-informed, community-driven solutions that align resources to dismantle the systemic barriers which limit the possibilities for children, families, and communities

Human Services

Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor.

Environment

Metropolitan Baltimore Council of

The mission of the metropolititan baltimore council afl-cio unions is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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University of Baltimore Foundation Inc

Established to raise, manage funds, and provide financial support to the university of baltimore.

Education

Cfa Society Baltimore Inc

The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…

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Baltimore Community Foundation Inc

Baltimore community foundation's mission is to inspire donors to achieve their charitable goals.

Philanthropy

The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services

The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors Inc

The greater baltimore board of realtors, inc. is an advocate for the business and professional interests of its members, the practice of high ethical standards in the transfer of real property, and preserving private property rights.

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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fight for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plank Foundation for Entrepreneurship. 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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4/49

the rest of the field

12%

5,064/41,800

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.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/42

Grantees still filing

27/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$27,348,029Human Services$2,568,000Youth Development$1,837,000Recreation & Sports$1,680,000Health$558,200Education$530,000Philanthropy$321,250

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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 organisation THE PLANK FAMILY 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PLANK FOUNDATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475235006 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PLANK FOUNDATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Plank Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE PLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Plank Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE PLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Plank Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph