· Public charity
Venable Foundation Inc
The venable foundation works to promote the health and well-being of the communities where venable's clients and attorneys work and live.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 198 grants below total $2,707,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,984,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,277,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k165 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYDEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $90,000 |
| MARYLAND LEGAL AID | $50,000 |
| MIRIAM'S KITCHEN | $40,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $40,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $40,000 |
| HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT | $35,000 |
| HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $30,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $25,000 |
| ARLINGTON PARTNERSHIP FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $25,000 |
| THE Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND | $25,000 |
| MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
269 repeat relationships — 175 still active in FY2024, 94 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +57%
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +70%
- MKMIRIAM'S KITCHEN8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- BABAY AREA LEGAL AIDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +96%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54%- EELEV8BALTIMOREINCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +512%
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.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
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.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
The legal action center (lac) uses legal policy strategies to fight discrimination, build health equity, and restore opportunity for people with arrest and conviction records, substance use disorders, and hiv or aids.
Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charm City Youth Lacrosse League Inc. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
356 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. 356 of the 360 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds TRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Law Foundation of Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PathForward Inc ↗
- Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SOME 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Sidley Austin 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 Venable 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc — 49% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Turnaround Inc — 18% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Baltimore Station Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau 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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