· Private foundation
David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $217k
- $10k–50k101 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $962k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Park School | $240,000 |
| Beth Tfiloh Congregation | $150,000 |
| Pikesville Armory Foundation | $125,000 |
| Chai Lifeline | $100,000 |
| The American Jewish Committee | $75,000 |
| Yiddish Book Center | $72,000 |
| Institute for Islamic Christian and Jewish Studies Inc | $50,000 |
| Interfaith America | $50,000 |
| Art with a Heart Inc | $50,000 |
| LifeBridge Health | $50,000 |
| Literacy Assistance Center Inc | $45,000 |
| WITNESS | $42,500 |
| American Jewish World Service | $40,000 |
| Maryland Food Bank Inc | $40,000 |
| Arts for Learning Maryland | $35,000 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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 11% of David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
161 repeat relationships — 107 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 15 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- TPTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +34%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $558k · revenue +128%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE8× · 2017–2024 · $515k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- PPPAUL'S PLACE INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -55%
- CBCONGREGATION BETH ELOHIMone grant, 2020 · $50k
- AJAmerican Jewish World Serviceone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.
Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Remembering Litvaks 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.
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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
199 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. 199 of the 237 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 THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH CUMMINGS YOUTH PROGRAM IN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
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- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
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- Who funds EMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE CENTER FOR TEACHING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg 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 David & Barbara B Hirschhorn 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
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- The Maryland School for the Blind — 47% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Partners in Care Maryland Inc — 40% of income from government
- Pikesville Armory Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc — 38% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 32% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Baltimore Bar Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Women's Law Center of Md Inc — 18% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Episcopal Housing Corporation — 8% of income from government
- Community Assistance Network 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
- Abilities Network Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% 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
- Beloved Community Services Corporation — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Iris Music Project — 3% of income from government
- The Women's Housing Coalition Inc — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Arc Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness 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.
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