· Private foundation
Morton & Sophia Macht Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of MORTON & SOPHIA MACHT FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
- $250k+1 grant · $507k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND (FUNDED THROUGH COMMUNITY PROGRAM CENTERS LLC) | $507,077 |
| COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK | $79,259 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION - SHRIVER PEACEWORKS | $59,150 |
| NEW CREATION CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $17,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP CURLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| FRANCISCAN CENTER | $500 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC | $500 |
| TALITHA CUMI SAFE HAVEN | $250 |
| TURNAROUND INC | $250 |
| TOWSON ELKS CHARITY FUND | $250 |
| IT'S ABOUT THE KIDS EDUCATION ORGANIZATION | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +16%- FCFRANCISCAN CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +21%
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- YGYMCA GOODNOW (FUNDED THROUGH COMMUNITY PROGRAM CENTERS LLC)one grant, 2022 · $36k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION - SHRIVER PEACEWORKER PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $33k
- YCYMCA COLLEGE (FUNDED THROUGH COMMUNITY PROGRAM CENTERS LLC)one grant, 2022 · $31k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Community law center is maryland's only legal services organization dedicated solely to strengthening neighborhoods and the nonprofit sector. for over 30 years, community law center's attorneys have been providing learning opportunities…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all with an emphasis on domestic violence and crisis intervention services.
Community based nonprofit organization
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
To offer assistance and support to the homeless, poor and needy of baltimore with services contributing toward their independence and stability.
To provide free mediation services in the baltimore metropolitan area for the purposes of reducing interpersonal and community violence. the program also provides community education and conflict resolution training.
Hopeworks mission is to provide support and advocacy for people in howard county affected by sexual and intimate partner violence and engage the community in creating the change required for prevention.
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
Our mission is to ensure the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of women throughout the state. the women's law center of md works towards this goal by providing direct legal representation, information and referral services,…
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helping Orphans Prosper Everywhere. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
16 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. 16 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
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- Who funds SANTA CLAUS ANONYMOUS INC ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds SEXUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES 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.
Open a dossier: France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Morton & Sophia Macht 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.
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Turnaround Inc — 18% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Assistance Network Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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