· Private foundation
The Robert W Awalt Sr Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS HOPE OF MARYLAND | $22,500 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS | $10,000 |
| HELPING UP MISSION | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE INC | $8,125 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $5,000 |
| BARCS | $3,125 |
| AA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,125 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY SPCA | $3,125 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LAKES REGION CONSERVATION TRUST | $2,000 |
| BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +57%
- TLTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +46%
- HUHELPING UP MISSION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- BCBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +28%
- CFCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +137%
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +110%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fuel Fund of Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is FOXG1 Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Lakes Region Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF ANNAPOLIS AND A A CO INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LE MONDO ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOXG1 Research Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Foundation · Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation
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 Robert W Awalt Sr 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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.