· Private foundation
The Stewart B Eckers Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND | $110,000 |
| NORTH BEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $7,500 |
| WILEY H BATES MIDDLE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| POLY PARENT FACULTY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| THE GREAT CHESAPEAKE BAY SWIM | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +287% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND7× · 2019–2025 · $719k
- NBNORTH BEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA6× · 2019–2025 · $41k
- WHWILEY H BATES MIDDLE SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $29k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PSPOT SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- FBFOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFEILD COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
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 organization is a community sailing center dedicated to the mission of bringing people of all ages to the water and inspiring a life-long passion for boating. The Sailing Center requires its instructors to be certified to insure the…
To promote historical maritime education, foster economic development and tourism, and represent the people of maryland in every port she visits. pride of baltimore ii set sail as the goodwill ambassador for the state of maryland in 1988.…
Provide leadership and support to persons with brain injuries via a wide variety of projects and programs in resource coordination, prevention, advocacy and self-determination.
The autism society of marylands mission is to create connections, empowering everyone in the autism community with the resources needed to live fully.
The mission of baltimore community lending is supporting the revitalization and strengthening of underserved communities in the greater baltimore region through innovative financial solutions and collaborative resources designed to promote…
To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
To steward an inventory of tools for lending to charitable organization to increase the impact of their mission-related efforts in the community.
Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laundrycares Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Towson Elks #469 Charity Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds AT JACOBS WELL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT CHESAPEAKE BAY SWIM INC ↗
- Who funds TOWSON ELKS #469 CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CARVER CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE AREA SPECIAL HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds RAGE AGAINST ADDICTION INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION CONNECTIONS RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Stewart B Eckers Charitable Trust 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.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% 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.
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