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Cordish Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.2MInternational$1.7MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$560kPhilanthropy$317kYouth Development$284kHuman Services$186kFood & Nutrition$124kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $1,278,588 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,470,088 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $191,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $732k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of the IDF$250,000
The Associated$122,000
Friends of Yemin Orde$120,000
Sheppard Pratt Health System$103,950
St. Francis Academy$100,000
Greater Miami Jewish Federation$100,000
Calvert School$100,000
Stevenson University$86,000
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale$25,000
Girl's Empowerment Mission$25,000
Foundation for Preservation of Govt House$25,000
Jewish National Fund$20,000
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School$20,000
Associated Black Charities$15,000
Ladew Topiary Gardens$15,000
02Your 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 62 repeat orgs$843k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
81

Total granted

$8.4M
$743k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

53%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SU
    STEVENSON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +22%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $770k · revenue +35%
  • SP
    SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $429k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • NM
    National Medal of Honor Museum
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MS
    Montessori Society of MD
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • OS
    OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -63%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your 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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
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…

3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

4
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

5
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates 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…

6
University of Maryland Dermatologists 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…

Health
7
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 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…

Health
8
University of Maryland Surgical Associates 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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates 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…

Health
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
University of Maryland Oncology Associates 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…

Health
12
University of Maryland Eye Associates 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…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thread Inc and the most unlike its peers is Israel Lacrosse Association Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Charter and Independent Sch…Community Hospital SystemsChildhood Cancer SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & RescueAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Professional Dance CompaniesPregnancy Support CentersCommunity Arts CentersClassical Music OrchestrasYouth Development CentersGovernment Accountability &…Community Theater CompaniesYouth Sports ProgramsLocal History MuseumsJewish Community FederationsCommunity Foundations
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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/98
the rest of the field
14%
5,902/41,751

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.

03the grantee network

91 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 162 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/91
Grantees still filing
66/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Associated — $2,855,157 · OtherThe AssociatedFriends of the IDF — $268,667 · OtherSt. Francis Academy — $250,000 · Other+97 more — $1,667,993 · Other+97 moreSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $1,186,150 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSIT…CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $220,000 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCO…THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $77,500 · Education+10 more — $144,000 · Education+10 moreIMPACTISRAEL INC — $769,530 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INCAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $476,800 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $120,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL …+2 more — $9,833 · InternationalEUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION — $305,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $73,200 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $41,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $32,215 · Arts & CultureHigh Zero Foundation Inc — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $80,510 · Arts & CultureSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $428,950 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 · Health+8 more — $60,440 · HealthBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $166,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHREAD INC — $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $10,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $4,500 · Youth Development
Other$5,041,817Education$1,627,650International$1,376,163Arts & Culture$561,925Health$525,390Philanthropy$306,000Youth Development$224,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $1,186,150 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $769,530 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $476,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $428,950 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $220,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHREAD INC — $180,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $166,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $77,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC — $74,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $73,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $38,991 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $34,505 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $32,215 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Zero Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $27,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL RABIL FOUNDATION INC — $21,500 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMENTOR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND ART PLACE INC — $18,300 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGBMC HEALTHCARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHAREBABY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETREAT AT BECKLEYSVILLE INC — $8,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $8,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $8,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG VICTORIAN THEATRE COMPANY — $5,450 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $5,440 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 STEVENSON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC
  • Who funds EUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED
  • Who funds THREAD INC
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC
  • Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC
  • Who funds OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
  • Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC
  • Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds High Zero Foundation Inc
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL 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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD51.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · T Rowe Price 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cordish Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cordish Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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