· Public charity
Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc
Alliance for open society international, inc.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to New Venture Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc named its own grantees at scale: 53 organizations, $11M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 53 grants below total $11,231,864 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,205,179 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,973,315 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 · FY2021
- $10k–50k9 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+12 grants · $8.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC | $1,172,000 |
| FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC | $926,000 |
| URBAN STRATEGIES INC | $892,000 |
| ELEV8 BALTIMORE INC | $825,000 |
| CASA DE MARYLAND | $765,000 |
| BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $685,000 |
| JOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC | $565,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $540,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE | $485,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $485,000 |
| BON SECOURS OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC DBA BON S | $485,000 |
| BALTIMORE CORPS INC | $275,000 |
| MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK | $239,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE | $170,000 |
| CENTER FOR WORKFORCE INCLUSION | $150,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 32% of Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 5% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M 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
CASA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +54%- MPMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK3× · 2021–2023 · $914k · revenue +46%
- EELEV8BALTIMOREINC2× · 2020–2021 · $850k · revenue +785% · 81% of their budget
Funded once
- SCSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +42%
- BFBALTIMOREANS FOR TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE LAW Eone grant, 2020 · $65k
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.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
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.
The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
To educate the community on the adverse conditions under which they are living and propose various methods of alleviating conditions by conducting public forums and publishing studies.
Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
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…
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.
To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Civil justice is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding legal services for low and moderate-income marylanders facing life-altering legal issues, using innovative solutions that create positive change.
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Movement Team. 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 15 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
102 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.
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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds URBAN STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds ELEV8BALTIMOREINC ↗
- Who funds JOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds BANNER NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc ↗
- Who funds NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CWI WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE RESPONSE BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF TRUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Too Young to Wed Inc ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Baltimore Safe Haven Corp ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING BLACK INC ↗
- Who funds Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc ↗
- Who funds OUT For JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND ↗
- Who funds Justice Policy Institute ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BMORE EMPOWERED INC ↗
- Who funds POWER INSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HARM REDUCTION 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: Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein 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 Alliance for Open Society Int'L 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.
- Cwi Works Inc — 100% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc — 49% of income from government
- Baltimore Healthy Start Inc — 43% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Voices of Hope Inc — 6% of income from government
- Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp — 6% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Restorative Response Baltimore 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
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation 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.