· Private foundation
The Wolman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k29 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HAMPDEN FAMILY CENTER | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC | $10,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $10,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| SOUTHWEST SPORTS AND FITNESS ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| ART WITH A HEART | $10,000 |
| BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC | $3,250 |
| MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +63% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2022, 25 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- THThe Hampden Family Center Inc3× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +10%
- GHGrow Home Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +261%
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- TATHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $16k
- CCCHESAPEAKE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND DEVone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IHINNTERIM HOUSING CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thread Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 83 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 The Hampden Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Grow Home Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SPORTS AND FITNESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Maryland Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Ingenuity Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds INNTERIM HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable 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 Wolman Family Foundation 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.
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Maryland Humanities Council Inc — 60% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Shriver Hall Concert Series Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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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