How much did WEST BALTIMORE RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2023?

WEST BALTIMORE RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC reported 55 grants totaling $5,348,896 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is WEST BALTIMORE RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC based?

WEST BALTIMORE RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC is based in MD.

WEST BALTIMORE RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· 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.

$5.3M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$300k

Largest

01What you fund

0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.

Community Improvement$2.1MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$1.3MEducation$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$895kArts & Culture$730kEmployment$565kOther$1.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

nflwellplancompassionate carecare community-basedcommunity-based seek

2022

railroaddigitalrailroadinghistoricmuseum offersprepareeducation technology

2023

liveexcellencelow incomeachieveseniorsbackgroundscommitted

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k13 grants · $367k
$50k–250k39 grants · $4.1M
$250k+3 grants · $825k

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

CLERGY UNITED FOR TRANSFORMATION SANDTOWN$300,000
VSP - SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE$275,000
THE CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES$250,000
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA$200,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER BALTIMORE INC$200,000
CENTER FOR HOPE$200,000
BALTIMORE PUBLIC MARKETS$180,000
FEDERATED CHARITIES CORP OF FREDERICK$175,000
URBAN ALLIANCE$150,000
4MYCITY INC$150,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$135,000
PARKS & PEOPLE INC$125,000
SO WHAT ELSE INC$125,000
SOUTHWEST PARTNERSHIP$125,000
NPOWER INC$125,000

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.3M · 29 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.3M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%

+52%

Still filing today

93%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

CF
Center for Hope Inc
3× · 2021–2023 · $908k · revenue +124%
VI
VSP Industries
3× · 2021–2023 · $895k · revenue +24%
TC
THE CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES
3× · 2021–2023 · $750k · revenue +70%

Funded once

TB
The B&O Railroad Museum Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +167%
BB
Byte Back
one grant, 2022 · $165k · revenue -68%
PP
Project Pneuma Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +614%

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.

Baltimore Corps Inc

To enlist talent to accelerate social innovation in baltimore and advance a citywide agenda for equity and racial justice.

Employment

Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development

City of Baltimore Development Corporatio

The city of baltimore development corporation (bdc) is contracted with the city of baltimore to provide economic development services.

Community Improvement

Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

Build an efficient and detailed curriculum for all interested baltimore city public schools.

Education

Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services

Community Mediation Program Inc

To provide free mediation services in the baltimore metropolitan area for the purposes of reducing interpersonal and community violence. the program also provides community education and conflict resolution training.

Human Services

Family League of Baltimore City Inc

Family League of Baltimore works collaboratively to support data-informed, community-driven solutions that align resources to dismantle the systemic barriers which limit the possibilities for children, families, and communities

Human Services

Business Volunteers Maryland Inc

Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.

Community Improvement

Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our eighteen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…

Education

The Boys and Girls Clubs

Boys & girls clubs of metropolitan baltimore (bgcmb) provides youth development programs and services for youth ages 6 to 18 during the critical out-of-school time hours. our nine club locations are community-based and led by paid,…

Youth Development

Baltimore Area Health Education Center

To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings see sched o

Health

Metropolitan Baltimore Council of

The mission of the metropolititan baltimore council afl-cio unions is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Association of Non-Profit and the most unlike its peers is Center for Technology Access and Trng. 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/80

the rest of the field

12%

1,310/11,082

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.

05the grantee network

75 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

73/75

Grantees still filing

64/75

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$2,139,720Human Services$1,477,033Health$1,264,182Education$1,257,835Crime & Legal$1,188,080Youth Development$1,114,180Philanthropy$895,000Other$2,906,981

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 IncMD99.8× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

33get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Cody Young Empowerment Youth Charities.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 830597921 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Cody Young Empowerment Youth Charities, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 49% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WEST BALTIMORE RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

75 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

WEST BALTIMORE RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

75 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph