· Private foundation
Wr Grace Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k69 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $441k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $336k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $30,000 |
| THE WELL (DRINK AT THE WELL INC) | $30,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA CASA ASSOCIATION | $28,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE CHANCERY INC | $25,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY - SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $24,959 |
| LIBBY CHAMBERS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| HOSPICE OF BATON ROUGE | $16,000 |
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, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
212 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 143 since wound down; 30 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $533k 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
- MAMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +35%
- HHHOWARD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +42%
- DADRINK AT THE WELL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +815%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - HARVEY DISASTER FUNDone grant, 2017 · $100k
- CAColumbia Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +57%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Howard County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Middle Patuxent Environmental Foundation. 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 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
205 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. 205 of the 407 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 MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOWARD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DRINK AT THE WELL INC ↗
- Who funds WR GRACE & CO EMPLOYEE DISASTER RELIEF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA CASA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds Learning Undefeated Inc ↗
- Who funds FLYING WINGS OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF CURTIS BAY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KOOTENAI RIVER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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 United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving 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 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.
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc — 60% of income from government
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Hopeworks of Howard County Inc — 29% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- Columbia Festival Inc — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- World Trade Center Institute Inc — 9% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Albany — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Howard County Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Casa of Linn County 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.