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Trust uw Dorothy Wagner Wallis

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$899kHuman Services$280kHealth$45kAnimals$30kEmployment$30kPhilanthropy$9k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$893k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Baltimore Museum of Art$50,000
Action in Maturity Inc$10,346
Maryland SPCA$5,000
The League for People with Disabilities Inc$5,000
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc$5,000
The Salvation Army$5,000
Friends of Boroume Inc$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Richcroft Inc: $5k → 11%St Mary's Outreach Center: $10k → 19%St Mary's Outreach Center: $8k → 19%The League for People with Disabilities Inc: $5k → 19%The League for People with Disabilities Inc: $5k → 19%The League for People with Disabilities Inc: $5k → 19%The League for People with Disabilities Inc: $5k → 19%The League for People with Disabilities Inc: $5k → 19%The League for People with Disabilities Inc: $5k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$1.3M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+50%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $899k · revenue +2%
  • AI
    ACTION IN MATURITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $233k · revenue +7%
  • TL
    THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • MW
    Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • RI
    RICHCROFT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +50%
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
Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc

Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.

Crime & Legal
2
Partners in Care Maryland Inc

Partners in care, inc is dedicated to helping older adults live independently in their own homes and remain actively engaged in their communities.

Philanthropy
3
Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

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5
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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6
Roland Park Place Inc

Our mission is to be a leader in providing services for older adults and their families while fostering a strong sense of community where everyone is known by name and every voice is heard and valued.

Human Services
7
Baltimore Washington Medical Center Inc

The mission of baltimore washington medical center (bwmc) is to provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve. our vision is to be the preferred regional medical center through nationally recognized quality,…

Health
8
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
9
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
10
University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical System Inc

The mission of umbwms is to provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve. our vision is to be the preferred regional medical center through nationally recognized quality, personalized service and outstanding…

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11
Maryland Inclusive Housing Corporation

Maryland inclusive housing corporation's (mih) mission is to help people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (idd) successfully access and maintain inclusive, affordable, and accessible housing of their choice by…

Housing & Shelter
12
First Maryland Disability Trust Inc

To enhance the quality of life, autonomy and dignity of marylanders with disabilities by offering cost effective trust services to protect, manage and use trust assets for beneficiaries while preserving eligibility for public and private…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The League for People With Disabilities; the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $899,385 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ARTACTION IN MATURITY INC: $232,980 · Community ImprovementACTION IN MATURITY I…The Salvation Army: $30,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BOROUME INC: $9,000 · OtherTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesST MARYS OUTREACH INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesRICHCROFT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $30,000 · AnimalsMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $10,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$899,385Community Improvement$232,980Other$69,000Human Services$52,500Animals$30,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $899,385 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetACTION IN MATURITY INC: $232,980 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST MARYS OUTREACH INC: $17,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHCROFT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ACTION IN MATURITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds RICHCROFT INC ↗

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 Foundation IncMD13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · 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 Trust uw Dorothy Wagner Wallis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trust uw Dorothy Wagner Wallis. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Trust uw Dorothy Wagner Wallis 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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