How much did Trp Shawe Fndatn grant in FY2025?

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$1.0MPhilanthropy$566kHousing & Shelter$320kHealth$305kRecreation & Sports$300kEnvironment$160kYouth Development$114kOther$0

02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k45 grants · $138k
$10k–50k17 grants · $310k
$50k–250k7 grants · $609k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$137,000
ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$108,000
BRYN MAWR SCHOOL	$93,333
THE ASSOCIATED	$85,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$85,000
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS	$50,500
FOUNDATION FOR BLSYW	$50,000
WALTERS ART MUSEUM	$38,000
BALTIMORE SQUASHWISE	$35,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$30,000
KIPP BALTIMORE	$25,000
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$20,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF	$20,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC	$17,500
IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC	$15,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $24k) 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.7M · 73 repeat orgs$477k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+24%

Still filing today

64%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

BS
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $525k · revenue +107%
RP
ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $275k · revenue +59% · 40% of their budget
KB
KIPP BALTIMORE INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $142k · revenue +4%

Funded once

SP
SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue +55%
BL
BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
one grant, 2024 · $50k
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education

University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Owsley Stanley Foundation. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/75

the rest of the field

14%

5,903/41,774

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 112 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/68

Grantees still filing

54/68

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,292,801Arts & Culture$728,449Philanthropy$565,772Education$562,833Environment$425,000Health$228,603Youth Development$111,000

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD39.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation

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 Trp Shawe Fndatn 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

11report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Trp Shawe Fndatn?

Find your warmest path to Trp Shawe Fndatn 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines