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Herbert Bearman Foundation at a glance

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Herbert Bearman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$255k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$1.8MInternational$1.6MReligion$1.3MEducation$1.0MRecreation & Sports$764kFood & Nutrition$628kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $935k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $588k
  • $250k+1 grant · $255k
$18,375
Median grant
10
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF$255,120
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COU$145,439
CHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATION$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL$100,000
LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION$75,500
BRIDGES BALTIMORE$60,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION OF MARYL$57,000
THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER$40,000
TEENS WITH TRAUMA$37,500
FRIENDS OF ELNET$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELI$30,000
THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$26,442
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SH$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $15k → 12%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 6%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $15k → 12%BEMORE CARING: $10k → 6%ART WITH A HEART INC: $15k → 19%CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%ART WITH A HEART: $15k → 19%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELI: $20k → 7%ART WITH A HEART INC: $15k → 19%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELI: $15k → 7%ART WITH A HEART INC: $15k → 19%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $18k → 6%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $20k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $20k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $26k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $20k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $15k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $23k → 11%SEAGULL INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED: $18k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $86k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $76k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $27k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%ROBERTA'S HOUSE: $25k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $25k → 11%WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE: $25k → 11%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $20k → 11%ROBERTA'S HOUSE: $18k → 19%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 11%TEENS WITH TRAUMA: $38k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $15k → 11%VITA NOVA INC: $13k → 11%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $15k → 19%PLACE OF HOPE: $25k → 11%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $11k → 19%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $11k → 19%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $11k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MD
DE
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Herbert Bearman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 53%.

Herbert Bearman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 135 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

135 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 98 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
128

Total granted

$11M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+25%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $346k · revenue +120%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $276k · revenue +32%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $205k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • AJ
    ALBERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $56k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $54k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $52k · revenue -22%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
2
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
4
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

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,…

Health
5
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…

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6
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…

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7
The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc

The associated: jewish community federation of baltimore strengthens and nurtures jewish life by engaging and supporting community partners in greater baltimore, israel, and around the world. continued on schedule osince 1920, the…

Philanthropy
8
University of Maryland Neurology 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…

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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 Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates 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…

Education
11
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

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…

Community Improvement
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pickleberry Pie Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

162 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 162 of the 300 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
159/162
Grantees still filing
126/162
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $969,728 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORECAMPS AIRY AND LOUISE FOUNDATION: $554,100 · OtherCAMPS AIRY AND LOUISE FOUNDATIONJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $460,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEBETH EL CONGREGATION: $448,543 · Other+113 more: $6,182,384 · Other+113 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $346,017 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMM…ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $135,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUID…WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED VET…THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $74,046 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF …CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesArt With a Heart Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesELI-AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $45,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $45,000 · Human Services+15 more: $408,878 · Human Services+15 moreFRIENDS OF ELNET: $145,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $140,870 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · InternationalFuente Latina Inc: $125,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $116,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $70,360 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $55,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $52,800 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $50,000 · International+7 more: $178,987 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $517,590 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $146,650 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCenter for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy Inc: $37,500 · PhilanthropyJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $204,900 · EducationKEREN OR INC: $136,400 · EducationKIPP BALTIMORE INC: $111,550 · EducationBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC: $60,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $29,000 · Education+10 more: $212,000 · EducationTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $100,000 · HealthQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $61,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $54,300 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $52,000 · HealthCLINICS CAN HELP INC: $45,000 · HealthIBIS FRIENDS OF VETERANS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC: $44,000 · HealthMARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $41,165 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $40,500 · HealthCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $27,500 · Health211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc: $20,000 · HealthMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $20,000 · Health+5 more: $64,990 · HealthJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $174,000 · Arts & CultureREUT USA: $144,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $93,700 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $21,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$8,614,755Human Services$1,328,941International$1,059,517Philanthropy$756,740Education$753,850Health$570,455Arts & Culture$518,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $517,590 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $346,017 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC: $276,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $204,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $174,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $146,650 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $145,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetREUT USA: $144,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $140,870 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $136,400 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $135,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFuente Latina Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $120,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $116,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP BALTIMORE INC: $111,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $96,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $93,700 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $93,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $92,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $85,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHREAD INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $74,046 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $70,360 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetGATEWAY MARYLAND INC: $65,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $62,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $61,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetArt With a Heart Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDWARD A MYERBERG SENIOR CENTER INC: $59,940 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $54,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $52,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $52,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetELI-AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $45,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCLINICS CAN HELP INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIBIS FRIENDS OF VETERANS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC: $44,000 over 5y, 11% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds REUT USA ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN OR INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fuente Latina Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗

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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…The John J Leidy Foun…The United Way of Cen…The Abell Foundation …Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Marion I & Henry …T Rowe Price Program …David & Barbara B Hir…Sherman Family Founda…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD85.6× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert Bearman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert Bearman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 530%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Open Works Inc: 96% of income from government
  • The Maryland School for the Blind: 47% of income from government
  • Vita Nova Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Roberta's House Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
  • 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Grandmas Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place 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
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • Maryland New Directions Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle 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
  • Chase Brexton Health Services Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Women's Housing Coalition Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Baltimore Festival of the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
53get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 300 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home