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Melvin & Betty Fine Foundation Inc at a glance

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Melvin & Betty Fine Foundation Inc

To promote zionism, jewish education and the us - israel relationship

$134k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$605kHealth$67kArts & Culture$51kRecreation & Sports$47kEducation$33kHuman Services$25kInternational$17k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $115,434, the rows itemized in this filing. The $134,109 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,675 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
$5,675
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTIMORE ZIONIST DISTRICT INC$67,059
BETH ISRAEL$7,350
Individual grant recipient$7,000
EAST END TEMPLE$6,000
TEMPLE JUDEA$5,675
JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,600
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,600
JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND$5,600
GREEN AGAIN FUND$5,550
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JAFCO: $1k → 13%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%GREEN AGAIN FUND: $6k → 14%GREEN AGAIN FUND: $6k → 14%SHALOM TIKVAH: $3k → 11%SHALOM TIKVAH: $3k → 11%SHALOM TIKVAH: $2k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$903k · 20 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$903k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+31%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationReligionOther
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

  • BZ
    BALTIMORE ZIONIST DISTRICT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $519k · revenue +20% · 58% of their budget
  • TJ
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +58%
  • TC
    THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • IL
    ISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +31%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
  • GF
    GBMC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Baltimore Jewish Council Inc

To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…

Education
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Sherit Isroel
—
7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
12
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore; the most unlike its peers is Israel Lacrosse Association 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

22 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. 22 of the 33 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE ZIONIST DISTRICT INC: $518,648 · OtherBALTIMORE ZIONIST DISTRICT INCBETH AM SYNAGOGUE: $82,175 · OtherBETH AM SYNAGOGUETEMPLE BAT YAM: $49,125 · OtherTEMPLE BAT YAM+14 more: $87,825 · Other+14 moreTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $47,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $12,000 · HealthNATIONAL GAUCHER FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $3,250 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $31,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $25,450 · Arts & CultureTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC: $34,700 · Recreation & SportsISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC: $11,850 · Recreation & SportsGREEN AGAIN FUND INC: $11,475 · Human ServicesJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesShalom Tikvah Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $1,400 · Human ServicesFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $2,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $6,800 · International
Other$737,773Health$69,750Arts & Culture$56,950Recreation & Sports$46,550Human Services$30,375Education$11,000International$6,800

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 budgetBALTIMORE ZIONIST DISTRICT INC: $518,648 over 9y, 58% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC: $34,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $25,450 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC: $12,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC: $11,850 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREEN AGAIN FUND INC: $11,475 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShalom Tikvah Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $6,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GAUCHER FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $1,400 over 1y, 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.

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.

Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Program …National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Melvin & Betty Fine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin & Betty Fine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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Find your warmest path to Melvin & Betty Fine 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 33 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 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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