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Julius & Blanche Diener Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$82kReligion$57kHuman Services$36kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$27kPhilanthropy$18kAnimals$6kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$725k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$4,500
LUTHERAN VILLAGE AT MILLER'S GRANT$4,000
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY$3,500
WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL$3,500
ENOCH PRATT LIBRARY$3,500
SOS EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM$3,000
DC LIBRARY RENAISSANCE PROJECT$2,500
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$2,500
WEEKEND BACKPACKS FOR HOMELESS KIDS$2,500
CHESAPEAKE TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$2,000
JOHN HOPKINS KIMMEL CANCER CENTER$2,000
THE ASSOCIATED$2,000
AHAVAS YISRAEL$2,000
HADASSAH OF GREATER BALTIMORE$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 19%Ronald McDonald House: $5k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 19%Ronald McDonald House: $5k → 19%Ronald McDonald House: $5k → 19%Ronald McDonald House: $5k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$282k · 29 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
1

Total granted

$282k
$750

Still filing today

45%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsHousing & 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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +7%
  • WB
    WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +151%
  • LV
    LUTHERAN VILLAGE AT MILLER'S GRANT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CO
    Church of the Ascension
    one grant, 2020 · $750
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
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
2
University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical System Inc

The mission of umbwms is to provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve. our vision is to be the preferred regional medical center through nationally recognized quality, personalized service and outstanding…

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3
Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital Inc

Levindale is a geriatric center and hospital dedicated to providing service in a cost-effective manner for the aged, frail and ill in institutional, community and home settings. as an advocate for the elderly, levindale accepts a…

Health
4
Stella Maris Inc

In the tradition of the sisters of mercy, stella maris provides a comprehensive range of health and housing services for the compassionate care of the elderly, the sick and the dying.

—
5
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health
6
Villa Mary Immaculate

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Health
7
Missouri Delta Medical Center Foundation

Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.

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8
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.

Health
9
Maryland General Hospital Inc

Hospital providing acute care, 24 hour emergency care irrespective of ability to pay, and promoting public awareness of health matters through education and outreach.

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Mount Carmel Health Plan Inc

We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel health plan is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.

Health
12
Umsj Health System Llc

The organization's mission is guided by our catholic health care tradition of loving service and compassionate care. as an integral member of umms, we provide access to a full spectrum of health care services that improves the health of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Weekend Backpacks Baltimore Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $22,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL CONGREGATIONWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL: $19,000 · OtherWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOLCOLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY: $19,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARYSOS Early Childhood Program: $19,000 · OtherSOS Early Childhood ProgramHadassah of Greater Baltimore: $18,000 · OtherHadassah of Greater BaltimoreThe Associated: $17,000 · OtherThe AssociatedAHAVAS YISRAEL: $10,500 · OtherAHAVAS YISRAELENOCH PRATT LIBRARY: $8,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS: $7,000 · Other+13 more: $43,750 · Other+13 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HO…WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWEEKEND BACKPACKS …LUTHERAN VILLAGE AT MILLER'S GRANT: $17,750 · Housing & ShelterTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $8,000 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $6,000 · EducationLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $8,250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · HealthMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 · International
Other$183,750Human Services$47,000Housing & Shelter$17,750Education$14,000Health$10,750Animals$6,000International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLUTHERAN VILLAGE AT MILLER'S GRANT: $17,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $8,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILDRED MINDELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHome for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $3,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA SPECIAL HOCKEY: $3,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN VILLAGE AT MILLER'S GRANT ↗
  • Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILDRED MINDELL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE AREA SPECIAL HOCKEY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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.

T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · David W Buck Family Foundation Inc · Blanket Fort Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · American Gift Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Julius & Blanche Diener Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julius & Blanche Diener Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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How do I get to Julius & Blanche Diener Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Julius & Blanche Diener Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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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