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The Witthoey Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Witthoey Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$475k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$272k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MHousing & Shelter$60kEducation$50kYouth Development$30kInternational$7kEnvironment$6kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $272k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$172k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$272,000
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE$70,000
THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM$41,666
EVERYMAN THEATRE$25,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$15,000
BALTIMORE SQUASHWISE$10,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING MD$10,000
MAUI CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PHILLY SEEDS$10,000
AMERICA SHARE USA INC$1,750
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CULTURAL SANCTUARIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%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

WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
MD
AZ
NM
DC
HI
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 9 repeat orgs$837k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$1.2M
$530k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+71%

Still filing today

67%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • WC
    WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $566k · revenue +81%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +52%
  • PS
    PHILLY SEEDS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • B
    BSO
    one grant, 2020 · $330k
  • CS
    CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue -9%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +193%
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 Chamber Orchestra Inc

The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.

Arts & Culture
2
Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…

Arts & Culture
3
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture
4
Baltimore Concert Opera Inc

Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…

Arts & Culture
5
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
6
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Chesapeake shakespeare company creates community through energetic, joyful, and accessible classic theatre, bringing our art to baltimore, the state of maryland, and beyond through innovative and comprehensible productions of shakespeare…

Arts & Culture
7
Baltimore Symphony Endowment Trust

The organization is a supporting organization of the baltimore symphony orchestra, inc. (bso) and exists to support bso in accomplishing its missions. the depreciation expense of the endowment trust relates to assets used by the bso in…

Education
8
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
9
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
10
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
11
The Washington Ballet

See schedule othe mission of the washington ballet is: to bring the joy and artistry of dance to the nation's capital and the world's stage through the professional presentation of the best in classic and contemporary ballet to provide the…

Arts & Culture
12
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everyman Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maui Classical Music Festival. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $565,600 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INCBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $272,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $51,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $92,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreBSO: $330,000 · OtherBSOWALTERS ART MUSEUM: $242,334 · OtherWALTERS ART MUSEUMBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $199,000 · OtherBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCARTS FOR LEARNING MD: $30,000 · Other+11 more: $98,000 · Other+11 morePHILLY SEEDS INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $25,000 · EducationCULTURAL SANCTUARIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $1,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$1,055,600Other$899,334Housing & Shelter$60,000Youth Development$30,000Education$25,000Human Services$5,000Environment$1,000

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 budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $565,600 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $272,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLY SEEDS INC: $60,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAUI CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICA SHARE USA INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCULTURAL SANCTUARIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Baltimore Squashwise Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 29 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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