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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…

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$5.4MArts & Culture$5.0MEducation$4.2MPhilanthropy$2.9MHuman Services$682kCommunity Improvement$598kReligion$105kHealth$76kEnvironment$70kOther$2.8M
02FY2024 · 39 grants

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
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $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.

area typical 12%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $17k → 22%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $30k → 17%CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC: $10k → 6%PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM CONNECTS: $50k → 8%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 22%FISHES & LOAVES PANTRY INC: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $13k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $7k → 11%CASA OF BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%CASA OF BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%CASA BALTIMORE: $8k → 19%CASA BALTIMORE: $7k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $100k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $100k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $100k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $97k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $75k → 19%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $10k → 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

WI
NY
MA
PA
RI
VA
MD
DC
GA

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 41 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
49

Total granted

$17M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TI
    THREAD INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +112%
  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +57%
  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • BC
    BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +252%
  • EP
    EUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $290k · revenue -100%
  • SF
    SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC
    one 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.

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
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

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…

Education
2
Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

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…

Education
3
Cfa Society Baltimore Inc

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…

4
Boston Architectural College

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

5
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…

6
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
The Maryland School for the Blind

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…

Education
8
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Inc

Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.

Religion
9
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
10
Baltimore Montessori Inc

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.

Education
11
Bullis School

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…

Education
12
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…

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr16%13%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr22%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr16%3%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr22%35%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/97
the rest of the field
14%
1,510/11,065

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172026, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
63/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THREAD INC — $4,842,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INCTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $335,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTN…+7 more — $258,836 · Youth DevelopmentBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $2,680,650 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ARTBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,442,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHES…EUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION — $290,000 · Arts & CultureEUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CO…+14 more — $573,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTeach for America Inc — $1,366,250 · EducationTeach for America IncUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $641,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMO…LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — $360,000 · EducationLIVING CLASSROOMS FOU…FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN — $295,200 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE BA…KIPP BALTIMORE INC — $230,000 · EducationKIPP BALTIMORE INCSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · EducationSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUND…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $219,100 · Education+14 more — $854,300 · Education+14 moreBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC — $1,012,500 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE CIVI…ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE — $850,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATED JEW…THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $720,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ASSOCIATED…THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $165,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY…+3 more — $111,450 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,039,200 · OtherBALTIMORE SCHOO…THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $107,050 · OtherJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $105,000 · Other+25 more — $784,354 · Other+25 moreCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $471,625 · Human ServicesPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $34,500 · Human ServicesCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM OF BALTIMORE INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $32,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES INC — $30,000 · Human Services+3 more — $30,000 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY — $394,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC — $50,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $29,000 · Community Improvement
Youth Development$5,436,336Arts & Culture$4,986,650Education$4,191,350Philanthropy$2,858,950Other$3,035,604Human Services$682,125Community Improvement$598,000

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 budgetTHREAD INC — $4,842,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $2,680,650 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,039,200 over 7y, 15% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,442,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,366,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC — $1,012,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE — $850,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $720,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $641,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC — $471,625 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $394,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — $360,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $335,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN — $295,200 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetKIPP BALTIMORE INC — $230,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $219,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $165,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $135,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $130,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM — $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $107,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $84,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE INC — $79,895 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC — $76,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK — $75,272 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $70,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND — $69,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTS EVERY DAY INC — $63,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIMENTOR INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADELANTE LATINA INC — $38,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $35,000 over 3y, 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.

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 Foundation IncMD78.8× affinity40 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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 220%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Center for Urban Families Inc36% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc33% of income from government
  • Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc23% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc22% of income from government
  • Parent Encouragement Program Inc22% of income from government
  • Baltimore Corps Inc15% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Thread Inc12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc10% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc7% of income from government
  • The Producers Club of Md Inc7% of income from government
  • Lyric Foundation Inc6% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc6% of income from government
  • Arts Every Day Inc4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc3% of income from government
  • Beloved Community Services Corporation3% of income from government
  • Wide Angle Youth Media Inc3% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc1% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter 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 97 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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