· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $554k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $805k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| YOUR PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION (WYPR) | $100,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $100,000 |
| BALTIMORE BANNER | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $75,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $70,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $60,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| THE SARBANES CENTER | $50,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BETH AM | $50,000 |
| BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND | $40,000 |
| ARTS EVERY DAY | $38,000 |
| KIPP BALTIMORE | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $704k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITHREAD INC2× · 2017–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +112%
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +57%- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · 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%
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
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.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
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…
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…
How this is measured
97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 102 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds ARTS EVERY DAY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORES PROMISE INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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