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The Warnock Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Warnock 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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$941kHuman Services$543kEducation$282kHealth$220kEmployment$50kEnvironment$42kPhilanthropy$34kRecreation & Sports$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$548k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN STREET ACADEMY FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.

area typical 11%SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $6k → 14%DIAMOND ON THE RISE INC: $515 → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND: $150k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND: $105k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND: $55k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND: $55k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $50k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $50k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND: $5k → 19%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $5k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
CA
MD
DE
NM
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 25 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
35

Total granted

$2.0M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+117%

Still filing today

72%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $370k · revenue +326%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $153k · revenue +29%
  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • TJ
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS WOMENS BOARD
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Baltimore Corps Inc

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…

Employment
2
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

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…

Education
3
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc

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.

Education
4
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc

Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city. the fund awards grants to community-based, youth-serving organizations and provides capacity-building and technical assistance to…

Youth Development
5
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

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…

Community Improvement
6
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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7
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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8
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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9
Baltimore Tree Trust Inc

To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.

Environment
10
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment
11
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
12
Central Baltimore Partnership Inc

The mission of the central baltimore partnership cbp is to galvanize the renaissance of the neighborhoods of central baltimore, creating a diverse, equitable community where everyone can thrive. the organization pursues its mission by…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Emerging Media Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $620,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUMBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $130,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ARTCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC+4 more: $55,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $152,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $100,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHELPING UP MISSION INC: $80,000 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $51,000 · OtherLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE S…UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FND INC: $25,200 · Other+35 more: $164,210 · Other+35 moreCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND INC: $370,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIE…CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIE…+3 more: $11,515 · Human ServicesGREEN STREET ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $58,757 · EducationCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EmploymentIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$930,500Other$652,910Human Services$481,515Education$89,257Employment$50,000Environment$42,000Philanthropy$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $620,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND INC: $370,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $152,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $58,757 over 7y, 78% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $51,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR EMERGING MEDIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $7,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Law in Action Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMEBODY CARES BALTIMORE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiamonds on the Rise: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Opportunity Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMERGING MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Law in Action 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.

France-Merrick Founda…Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …T Rowe Price Foundati…The Abell Foundation …The Harry and Jeanett…The Morris Goldseker …Venable Foundation IncBrown Advisory Charit…Associated Jewish Cha…Annie E Casey Foundat…Thomas Wilson Sanitar…
France-Merrick Foundation IncMD30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Warnock Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Warnock Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Beloved Community Services Corporation: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Warnock Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Warnock Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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