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Louis H Gross 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$6.0MPhilanthropy$5.9MEducation$5.8MReligion$165kHuman Services$87kArts & Culture$79kFood & Nutrition$45kInternational$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$8,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$222k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNETTE PAKULA DONOR ADVISED FUND$8,750
PERREAULT FAMILY FUND - DAF$8,750
WALDHOLTZ FAMILY FUND - DAF$8,750
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$8,750
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $3k → 14%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $10k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $1k → 10%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK: $10k → 19%HORIZON DAY CAMP: $2k → 19%LOVING ARMS INC: $5k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $6k → 19%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%THE ARC OF BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%THE ARC OF BALTIMORE: $11k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NH
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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 21% of Louis H Gross Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Louis H Gross Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 44 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
59

Total granted

$12M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+34%

Still filing today

68%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2.0M · revenue +76%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.9M · revenue +8%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • MG
    MEDSTAR GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ADVANCED PALLIATIVE CARE
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • VA
    VILLAGE AT HOME INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -45%

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
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
3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
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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6
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
7
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
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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
9
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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10
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
11
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
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Christian Youth CampsElementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support OrganizationsPublic Library SupportLand Conservation Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsChild and Family ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Youth Development CentersClassical Music EnsemblesUnited Way FederationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Animal Rescue and AdoptionEducation Equity LeadershipSenior Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Health CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,489

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.

05the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 112 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
52/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER — $3,778,728 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CEN…+67 more — $766,433 · Other+67 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,953,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,685,417 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSIT…+11 more — $71,250 · EducationTHE BESSEMER GIVING FUND — $2,891,288 · PhilanthropyTHE BESSEMER GIVIN…+6 more — $92,650 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $2,891,488 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMEN…The Children's Mercy Hospital — $1,510,000 · HealthThe Children…Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $480,000 · HealthMt Washingto…+2 more — $13,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $1,885,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRI…+5 more — $39,390 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $17,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $6,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of Art — $5,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureMaryland Humanities Council Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,545,161Education$3,709,667Philanthropy$2,983,938Community Improvement$2,891,488Health$2,003,000International$1,924,390Arts & Culture$77,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $2,891,488 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BESSEMER GIVING FUND — $2,891,288 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,953,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $1,885,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,685,417 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $1,510,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $480,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetV-LINC INC — $44,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC BALTIMORE INC — $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $24,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $14,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC — $13,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGATEWAY MARYLAND INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNaples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC — $10,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC — $9,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew England College — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTRAL FLORIDA HILLEL INC — $5,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Humanities Council Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,940 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Baltimore Community F…Associated Jewish Cha…The Harry and Jeanett…The Wolman Family Fou…David & Barbara B Hir…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Program …Nora Roberts Foundati…The United Way of Cen…Eliasberg Family Foun…Thomas Wilson Sanitar…Campbell Foundation I…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD32.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Eliasberg Family Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Campbell Foundation Inc

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 H Gross 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Maryland Humanities Council Inc — 60% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 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 Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Shriver Hall Concert Series Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Arc Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 H Gross Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Louis H Gross 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 112 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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