· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +287% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BSBALTIMORE SCHOOL OF MODEL ENGINEERSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PSPOT SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LRLAKE ROLAND NATURE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 THE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT CHESAPEAKE BAY SWIM INC ↗
- Who funds AT JACOBS WELL INC ↗
- Who funds TOWSON ELKS #469 CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CARVER CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION CONNECTIONS RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAGE AGAINST ADDICTION INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE AREA SPECIAL HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stewart B Eckers Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stewart B Eckers Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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