· Private foundation
The Wiessner Foundation for Children 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE WIESSNER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARC | $5,000 |
| CAMP POSSIBILITIES | $4,375 |
| JARRETTSVILLE LIONS CLUB | $3,725 |
| THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF HARFORD CO | $3,300 |
| KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE | $3,100 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE | $3,000 |
| COMFORT CASES INC | $2,750 |
| SHOCA | $2,500 |
| HORIZON DAY CAMP | $2,250 |
| COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN | $2,200 |
| CHESAPEAKE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| SALEM AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,680 |
| THE GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF NJ | $1,500 |
| MAESTRO ENSEMBLES INC | $1,375 |
| OLD LINE FOOTBALL CLUB | $1,100 |
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 (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CCCOMFORT CASES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +56%
- SDSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +30%
- LOLEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- CBCougar Boosters Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +42%
- NHNORTH HARFORD REC COUNCIL-BASEBALLone grant, 2023 · $4k
- HEHAMPSTEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
Baltimore Sports Academy serves under resourced communities by providing elementary-aged youth access to summer camps, after school programs, and sports leagues to develop strong bodies, minds and spirits. We assist youth to have success…
To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
We are a Montgomery County, MD based Little League organization offering programs for youths with ages between 4 and 16 to develop superior citizens through athletics and the life lessons presented in the games of baseball and softball.
To provide young hockey players, boys and girls, the opportunity to develop the talents to help the dedicated athlete move to the higher levels of hockey competition, whether that interest is junior hockey, prep school hockey, olympic…
Sbcs, a title 1 school, seeks to provide each child with the tools necessary to live a fulfilling, productive life. the rigorous expeditionary learning (el) school model is engaging and student-centered. el cultivates students' love of…
To implant in children the ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for authority by providing a supervised program of competitive baseball through organized teams and leagues.
Provides services to youth and families in low income area of baltimore city. services include after-school programming, organized sports activities, family support, and summer camp.
Preparing youth for life through sports
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 improve student achievement while promoting health. students at afya will be engaged in physical activity while focusing on the development of their reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills. afya provides an effective…
Leadership Through Athletics, Inc. (LTA) serves the Baltimore area by providing programs and opportunities that encourage leadership and values development, enhance youth educational experiences and promote health and fitness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Therapeutic Riding Inc and the most unlike its peers is The North Harford Hawks Booster Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 74 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 COMFORT CASES INC ↗
- Who funds MAESTRO ENSEMBLES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OAK GROVE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Cougar Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds Old Line Football Club Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Empowerment Society Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF HARFORD COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE ME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Ring Factory Elementary School PTA ↗
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: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Baltimore Orioles Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · The Dresher Foundation Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc
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 Wiessner Foundation for Children 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 School for the Blind — 47% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland State Boychoir Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Comfort Cases 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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