· Public charity
Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc
To provide housing, including owning, investing in and operating rental housing projects and all related amenities to benefit homeless persons, the elderly and persons of low or moderate income; to educate the public about housing needs; to provide education and training in housing management and related services; and to operate programs…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,085,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $566,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $75,000 |
| BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| KIPP BALTIMORE | $30,000 |
| THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND | $30,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $30,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE | $17,000 |
| MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK | $15,480 |
| HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT BALTIMORE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $682k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- TITHREAD INC2× · 2017–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +112%
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +57%- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- BCBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +252%
- EPEUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $290k · revenue -100%
- SFSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue +25%
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.
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…
The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is Baltimores Promise Inc. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 97 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.
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN ↗
- Who funds EUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORES PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds ARTS EVERY DAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation
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 Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter 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.
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Parent Encouragement Program Inc — 22% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lyric Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Beloved Community Services Corporation — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% 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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