Maryland · Private foundation
Herbert Bearman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2024
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,375
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $255,120
- Organizations funded a year
- 75 to 94
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Herbert Bearman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 69 | $1.8M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $1.7M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 87 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $1.7M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $1.6M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $1.6M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $1.5M | 65% |
| FY2017 | 78 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Services Inc | $346,017 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc | $276,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chizuk Amuno Congregation | $242,267 | 5 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $204,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc | $174,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Israel Project | $150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $146,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of Elnet | $145,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Reut USA | $144,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Impactisrael Inc | $140,870 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 171 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 124 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Herbert Bearman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 152 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Herbert Bearman Foundation
- How much does Herbert Bearman Foundation give?
- Herbert Bearman Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $1,851,875 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 94 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Herbert Bearman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (16%), Philanthropy (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Herbert Bearman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Community Services Inc ($346k), Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc ($276k), Chizuk Amuno Congregation ($242k).
- Does Herbert Bearman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herbert Bearman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Herbert Bearman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc.
- Where is Herbert Bearman Foundation based?
- Herbert Bearman Foundation is based in MD.
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