How much did WR GRACE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of WR GRACE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

way

2019

trusteesregents

2020

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2021

regents

2022

baltimore

2023

highschool

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

03FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k69 grants · $189k
$10k–50k28 grants · $441k
$50k–250k4 grants · $336k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$468k

Total assets

Largest grants

VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION$300,000
MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$150,000
AICHE - AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS$72,000
UNITED WAY$62,177
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$52,000
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY$34,000
THE WELL (DRINK AT THE WELL INC)$30,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$30,000
CAPITAL AREA CASA ASSOCIATION$28,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE CHANCERY INC$25,000
NO KID HUNGRY - SHARE OUR STRENGTH$24,959
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK$20,000
LIBBY CHAMBERS PROJECT$20,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
HOSPICE OF BATON ROUGE$16,000

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 (FY17–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.4M · 212 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

212 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 151 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

212

184

Total granted

$5.4M

$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+36%

Still filing today

49%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $759k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth 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

HH
HOWARD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +61%
MS
MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER
6× · 2017–2022 · $200k · revenue +67%
MF
MARYLAND FOOD BANK
7× · 2017–2023 · $123k · revenue +39%

Funded once

AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS - HARVEY DISASTER FUND
one grant, 2017 · $100k
AO
ARCHDIOCESE OF BALITMORE
one grant, 2023 · $50k
CA
COLUMBIA ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +57%

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.

Georgetown University

Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.

Education

College of Saint Mary

College of saint mary is a catholic university providing access to education for women in an enviroment that calls forth potential, fosters leadership, and is consistent with the works, values, and aspirations of the sisters of mercy.

Education

Maryland Independent College & University

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

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Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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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

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Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

University of Maryland Radiation

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University of Maryland Surgical

Health

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Circle Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rose. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/191

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,374

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

173 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)

166/173

Grantees still filing

135/173

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,033,279Health$463,134Philanthropy$420,519Arts & Culture$327,800Human Services$285,295Education$267,980Food & Nutrition$147,000

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.

The United Way of Central Maryland IncMD62.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Community Foundation of Howard · The Abell Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Marion I & Henry J Knott · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg

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 WR GRACE 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

34get no government money at all

0rely 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: KOOTENAI RIVER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810460564 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 KOOTENAI RIVER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, 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.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% 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 Wr Grace Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wr Grace 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.

WR GRACE 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

173 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wr Grace Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

WR GRACE 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

173 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wr Grace Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph