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The Wiessner Foundation for Children Inc at a glance

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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.

$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$60kHuman Services$54kRecreation & Sports$52kYouth Development$27kHealth$26kArts & Culture$25kReligion$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMFORT CASES: $6k → 8%COMFORT CASES: $6k → 8%COMFORT CASES: $4k → 8%COMFORT CASES INC: $3k → 8%SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION EDUCATI: $3k → 19%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $4k → 19%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $3k → 19%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $2k → 19%ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC: $1k → 19%ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC: $1k → 19%YOUTH EMPOWERED SOCIETY: $4k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $4k → 7%ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 19%ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 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.
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 22 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
45

Total granted

$151k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+7%

Still filing today

64%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • CC
    COMFORT CASES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +56%
  • SD
    SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +30%
  • LO
    LEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • CB
    Cougar Boosters Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +42%
  • NH
    NORTH HARFORD REC COUNCIL-BASEBALL
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • HE
    HAMPSTEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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 Sports Academy Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Baltimore Montessori Inc

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.

Education
3
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
4
Montgomery County Little League of Maryland Inc

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.

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5
Team Maryland Ice Hockey Organization Inc

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…

Youth Development
6
Southwest Baltimore Charter School Inc

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…

Education
7
Bethesda Chevy Chase Baseball Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
Mckim Community Association Inc

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.

—
9
Maryland Legends Incorporated

Preparing youth for life through sports

Recreation & Sports
10
Baltimore Lab School Inc

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…

Education
11
Afya Baltimore Inc

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…

Education
12
Leadership Through Athletics Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Therapeutic Riding Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAESTRO ENSEMBLES INC: $11,375 · OtherMAESTRO ENSEMBLES INCCAMP POSSIBILITIES: $10,325 · OtherCAMP POSSIBILITIESOAK GROVE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $9,254 · OtherOAK GROVE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCTHE COORDINATING CENTER: $7,000 · OtherSHOCA: $6,740 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC: $6,100 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $5,900 · Other+43 more: $114,929 · Other+43 moreCOMFORT CASES INC: $17,750 · Human ServicesCOMFORT CASES INCSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,429 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS…ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC: $7,250 · Human ServicesROBERTA'S HOUSE I…INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $3,518 · Human ServicesINNER COUNTY OUTR…Youth Empowerment Society Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesYouth Empowerment…SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $3,200 · Human ServicesSAFE ALTERNATIVE …CHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $6,261 · EducationCHESAPEAK…THE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC: $5,080 · EducationTHE VILLA…THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC: $3,288 · EducationTHE HIGHL…HARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationHARFORD C…THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $2,760 · EducationTHE MARYL…THE NORTH HARFORD HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC: $2,311 · EducationTHE NORTH…EMPOWER4LIFEMD Inc: $1,040 · EducationLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $6,844 · Recreation & SportsOld Line Football Club Inc: $4,350 · Recreation & SportsTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF HARFORD COUNTYINC: $3,300 · Recreation & SportsLEAGUE OF DREAMS INC: $2,400 · Recreation & SportsATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES: $2,400 · Recreation & SportsLEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC: $8,080 · Youth DevelopmentIMAGINE ME MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentMentoring Mentors Inc: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC: $7,900 · HealthMARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $3,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $3,500 · International
Other$171,623Human Services$44,647Education$23,740Recreation & Sports$19,294Youth Development$13,580Health$10,900International$3,500

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 budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $17,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAESTRO ENSEMBLES INC: $11,375 over 4y, 11% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,429 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC: $8,080 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC: $7,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROBERTA'S HOUSE INC: $7,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $6,844 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $6,261 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC: $5,080 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCougar Boosters Inc: $4,600 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetOld Line Football Club Inc: $4,350 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC: $3,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $3,518 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF HARFORD COUNTYINC: $3,300 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC: $3,288 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $3,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE ME MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $2,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERTOWN ARTS LEAGUE INC: $2,503 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMentoring Mentors Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEAGUE OF DREAMS INC: $2,400 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES: $2,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NORTH HARFORD HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC: $2,311 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MARYLAND STATE BOYCHOIR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMPOWER4LIFEMD Inc: $1,040 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

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.

The United Way of Cen…Baltimore Community F…Thomas Wilson Sanitar…The Marion I & Henry …Annie E Casey Foundat…Fund for Educational …The Baltimore Orioles…Clayton Baker TrustThe Dresher Foundatio…Family League of Balt…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Abell Foundation …
The United Way of Central Maryland IncMD28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wiessner Foundation for Children Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wiessner Foundation for Children Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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Find your warmest path to The Wiessner Foundation for Children 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 74 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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