· Public charity
West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc
To empower west baltimore residents and communities through strategic investments that expand services, amenities, and opportunities that lead to lasting impact on health and quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k47 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLERGY UNITED TRANS OF SANDTOWN | $310,000 |
| LEADING AGE MARYLAND | $267,472 |
| VSP | $250,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER BALTIMORE INC | $250,000 |
| DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION | $211,106 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE | $195,000 |
| CIVIC WORKS INC | $167,204 |
| THE Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND | $150,000 |
| NHS OF BALTIMORE | $140,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES | $125,000 |
| URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA | $125,000 |
| 4 MY CITY | $125,000 |
| U EMPOWER OF MD - THE FOOD PROJECT | $120,000 |
| GRACE MEDICAL CENTER | $118,515 |
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 (FY21–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $954k 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
- SHSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +14%
- CFCENTER FOR HOPE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +362%
- CFCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- FSFayette Street Outreachone grant, 2024 · $203k
- ABASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS CRAFT TRAINING TRUST OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue +24%
- BBBYTE BACKone grant, 2022 · $165k · revenue -77%
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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Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.
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…
Assist community members in capacity building, program development, fiscal sponsorship and organizational development for the general improvement in quality of life plus green space and community organiz.
The mission of IBIM Girls is to empower girls to B.E.L.I.E.V.E (Become Emerging Leaders Inspiring Excellence and Values Everyday) through group mentoring and leadership training necessary to become responsible, productive and successful…
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city. the fund awards grants to community-based, youth-serving organizations and provides capacity-building and technical assistance to…
To promote economic and workforce development strategies that assure full inclusion of individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment.
The greenmount west community center foundation serves as incubator which invests and supports the greatness and talent of baltimore's youth. we do this through innovative programming that evolves with the development and the needs of our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phase 3 Training Corporation. 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 17 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 111 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 SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CLERGY UNITED FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF SANDTOWN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds UEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BIOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds 4MyCity Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds No Struggle No Success Inc ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MARKETS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC ↗
- Who funds B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Turnaround Tuesday Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds CODE IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADINGAGE MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds I AM MENTALITY INC ↗
- Who funds LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds CODY YOUNG EMPOWERMENT YOUTH CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds PARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Fayette Street Outreach ↗
- Who funds JACK AND NANCY DWYER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NO BOUNDARIES COALITION 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 · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott 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 West Baltimore Renaissance 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.
- Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Health — 100% of income from government
- Pass It On Inc — 100% of income from government
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Light Health and Wellness Comprehensive Services Inc — 74% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Southwest Partnership Inc — 50% of income from government
- Saint Luke's Youth Center Inc — 48% 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
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc — 22% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Cen — 17% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
- Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Parity Baltimore Incorporated — 11% of income from government
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- 4MyCity Inc — 7% of income from government
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc — 7% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Access Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland 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
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 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.