· Private foundation
The Plank Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CHESTNUT RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBEST IS AHEAD FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +218% · 80% of their budget
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +64%- GWGREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FFFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue -54% · 75% of their budget
- PFPLANK FOUNDATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INCone grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -99% · 94% of their budget
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCEone grant, 2018 · $250k
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.
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.
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
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…
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.
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…
Neighborhood impact investment fund, inc. (niif) mobilizes capital and leverages partnerships to support community development, drive economic opportunity, and promote equity in baltimore's disinvested neighborhoods.
To raise and manage funds and to provide financial support to the university of baltimore. the foundation provides leadership, guidance, and support to the university's administration in advancing the mission and vision of the university.
The north baltimore aquatic club leads the nation in competitive swimming. our diligently designed, professionally coached and internationally renowned program encourages the development of character and self-discipline. these qualities,…
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
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.
The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.
To educate the community on the adverse conditions under which they are living and propose various methods of alleviating conditions by conducting public forums and publishing studies.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 89 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BEST IS AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTLAKE YOUTH ATHLETIC ORGANIZATION IN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds PLANK FOUNDATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NFX ↗
- Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAPLEWOOD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Foundation Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Plank Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Plank Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc: 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: 2% of income from government
- Harbor Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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