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Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
63%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,100
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,700
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$651k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$50k43%
FY20248$51k63%
FY20236$65k67%
FY20222$66k50%
FY20216$155k17%
FY20206$170k67%
FY20195$66k40%
FY20185$63k60%
77% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$478kRecreation & Sports$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kInternational$36kHealth$35kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chizuk Amuno Congregation$206,0005n/a
Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc$50,00017%
Chabad Owings Mills Inc$43,3003n/a
Hias Inc$36,00010%
Etz Chaim Center Inc$23,4002n/a
Lifebridge Health Inc$20,00030%
Baltimore Bikur Cholim Inc$10,00012%
Ohr Hatorah Inc$7,2001n/a
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc$5,00010%
Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore Inc$1,8001n/a
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chizuk Amuno Congregation$206,0005n/a
Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc$50,00017%
Chabad Owings Mills Inc$43,3003n/a
Hias Inc$36,00010%
Etz Chaim Center Inc$23,4002n/a
Lifebridge Health Inc$20,00030%
Baltimore Bikur Cholim Inc$10,00012%
Ohr Hatorah Inc$7,2001n/a
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc$5,00010%
Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore Inc$1,8001n/a
Gemsy Zay Foundation Inc$1,8001n/a

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($416k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $50,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Public Safety & Disaster (7%).
Who are Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chizuk Amuno Congregation ($206k), Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc ($50k), Chabad Owings Mills Inc ($43k).
Does Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc, Blanket Fort Foundation.
Where is Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Ernest and Meta Oppenheimer Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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