· Private foundation
Ethel M Looram Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Suzerian Capital Defense | $21,500 |
| Funds of Johns Hopkins Medicine | $10,000 |
| Celebration Barn Theater | $5,000 |
| Ralston College | $5,000 |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $5,000 |
| St Paul's School | $4,000 |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $4,000 |
| Savannah Music Theatre | $4,000 |
| University of Rochester | $3,500 |
| Trustees of Princeton University | $3,500 |
| Miss Porter's School | $3,500 |
| St John Baptist Catholic Church | $3,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $3,000 |
| Village School of North Bennington | $3,000 |
| Paul's Place | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
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.
79 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- SSUZERAIN3× · 2023–2025 · $58k · revenue +26%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +46%- CBCelebration Barn Theater5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- SMSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -6%
- FOFund of Johns Hopkins Medicine-HD Researchone grant, 2021 · $3k
- FFFunds for Johns Hopkins Medicine-HD Researchone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is St James Academy 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 111 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 SUZERAIN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Celebration Barn Theater ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NORTH BENNINGTON ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds John G McCullough Free Library Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION 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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Fancy Hill Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · LAiglon Fund · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ethel M Looram 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc — 20% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Village School of North Bennington — 9% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.