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Louis B II and Josephine L Kohn Family 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.

$313k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$900kHealth$673kEducation$220kOther$497k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT$50,000
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE$40,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND$40,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND$35,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND$35,000
NAMI MARYLAND$25,000
THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM$20,000
THE PARK SCHOOL$20,000
THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM$15,000
GOUCHER COLLEGE$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - GREATER MARYLAND CHAPTER$10,000
GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER INC$7,500
BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM: $20k → 11%NAMI MARYLAND: $25k → 6%ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND: $40k → 19%THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM: $15k → 11%NAMI MARYLAND: $20k → 6%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM: $15k → 11%NAMI MARYLAND: $20k → 6%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM: $15k → 11%NAMI MARYLAND: $15k → 6%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM: $15k → 11%NAMI MARYLAND: $15k → 6%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM: $15k → 11%NAMI MARYLAND: $15k → 6%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS: $50k → 11%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS: $50k → 11%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS: $50k → 11%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $40k → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND: $35k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $35k → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND: $30k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $25k → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND: $25k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $25k → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND: $20k → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND: $20k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $20k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $20k → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND: $20k → 19%THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $15k → 19%THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $15k → 19%THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $12k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 13 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
0

Total granted

$2.3M
$0

Still filing today

77%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationOther

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

  • HC
    HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $453k · revenue +82%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +375%
  • JM
    JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +211%

Funded once

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

    04Your field

    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.

    1
    Maryland Institute

    Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

    Education
    2
    University of Maryland Oncology 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
    3
    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
    4
    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…

    5
    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
    6
    University of Maryland Eye 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
    7
    University of Maryland Dermatologists 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
    8
    University of Maryland Surgical 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
    9
    University of Maryland Family Medicine 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…

    10
    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…

    11
    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…

    12
    The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

    Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

    Arts & Culture

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Park School of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Goucher College. 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

    10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    5
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    10/10
    Grantees still filing
    10/10
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $310,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INCJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC — $280,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INCBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC — $190,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INCSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT — $452,595 · HealthHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORTPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $180,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND IN…GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER CENTER INC — $40,500 · HealthGRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CE…THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE — $165,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FE…NAMI MARYLAND INC — $140,000 · OtherNAMI MARYLAND INCTHE WALTERS ART MUSEUM — $102,000 · OtherTHE WALTERS ART MUSEUMALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - GREATER MARYLAND CHAPTER — $90,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION …THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $130,000 · EducationTHE PARK S…GOUCHER COLLEGE — $90,000 · EducationGOUCHER CO…
    Arts & Culture$900,000Health$673,095Other$497,000Education$220,000

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT — $452,595 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC — $310,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC — $280,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC — $190,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI MARYLAND INC — $140,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $130,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE — $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER CENTER INC — $40,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budget
    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 HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT
    • Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC
    • Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC
    • Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC
    • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC
    • Who funds NAMI MARYLAND INC
    • Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC
    • Who funds SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE
    • Who funds GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER CENTER 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.

    France-Merrick Foundation IncMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Himmelrich Fund Inc · Eliasberg Family Foundation Inc · Halle Family Foundation Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

    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 Louis B II and Josephine L Kohn Family 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.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
    • Baltimore Clayworks Inc5% of income from government
    • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc2% of income from government
    • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc1% of income from government
    • Goucher College0% of income from government
    • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Louis B II and Josephine L Kohn Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Louis B II and Josephine L Kohn Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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