· Private foundation
Ben & Esther Rosenbloom 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
- $250k+2 grants · $969k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $636,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $333,334 |
| Individual grant recipient | $166,000 |
| HILLEL - UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $163,764 |
| HILLEL - NATIONAL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
| YESHIVAS LUBAVITZ OF BALTIMORE | $35,000 |
| ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER | $33,333 |
| HEBREW AT THE CENTER | $33,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $30,000 |
| PJ LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $22,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +54% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 11 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k 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
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $375k · revenue +82%
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY5× · 2019–2023 · $354k · revenue +4%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $225k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- AJASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE - PHILANTHROPIC FUNDone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- AJASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2023 · $512k
- PIPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $236k
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Israel-america academic exchange (iaae) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is todeepen the understanding of israel and the middle east within the international academiccommunity. the organization organizes educational missions and…
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Center for the Study of Great Ideas. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. 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 0% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 116 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds HEBREW AT THE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS RASHI INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds KULANU 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Mayberg Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Eliasberg Family Foundation Inc · The Milstein Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Hochberg Family Foundation
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 Ben & Esther Rosenbloom 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.
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% 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.
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