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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…

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
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.

Arts & Culture$7.1MYouth Development$5.5MEducation$4.7MPhilanthropy$2.9MHuman Services$663kCommunity Improvement$364kReligion$137kFood & Nutrition$117kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $1,380,110, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,408,810 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,700 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $554k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $805k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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.

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%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $12k → 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 OF BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%CASA BALTIMORE: $8k → 19%CASA BALTIMORE: $7k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $100k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $100k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
PA
RI
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 47 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
47

Total granted

$19M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+35%

Still filing today

98%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TI
    THREAD INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +112%
  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +57%
  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · 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%
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
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
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…

—
5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

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

—
7
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
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
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
10
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
11
University of Maryland Oncology 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…

Health
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/97
Grantees still filing
64/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THREAD INC: $4,842,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INCTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $341,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PAR…+8 more: $293,836 · Youth Development+8 moreBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $2,740,650 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ARTBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,492,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHEST…EUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $290,000 · Arts & CultureEUTAW PLACE NON-PROFIT COR…THE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $225,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $606,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreTeach for America Inc: $1,441,250 · EducationTeach for America IncUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $641,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMOR…LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $360,000 · EducationLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUN…FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $295,200 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE BAL…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $269,100 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…KIPP BALTIMORE INC: $265,000 · EducationKIPP BALTIMORE INCSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · EducationENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $205,150 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $160,000 · Education+14 more: $752,150 · 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: $820,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ASSOCIATED…THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY…+3 more: $117,650 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $2,084,200 · OtherBALTIMORE SCHOOL…THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $122,050 · OtherJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $135,000 · Other+27 more: $994,264 · Other+27 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $494,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $60,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $29,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $471,625 · Human ServicesPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM OF BALTIMORE INC: $44,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $44,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $34,500 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES INC: $30,000 · Human Services+3 more: $30,000 · Human Services
Youth Development$5,477,336Arts & Culture$5,354,650Education$4,614,350Philanthropy$2,975,150Other$3,335,514Community Improvement$708,000Human Services$704,125

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 budgetTHREAD INC: $4,842,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $2,740,650 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $2,084,200 over 8y, 15% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,492,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,441,250 over 6y, 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: $820,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $641,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $494,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $471,625 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $341,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $295,200 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $269,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP BALTIMORE INC: $265,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $225,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $205,150 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $122,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $113,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $109,650 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARTS EVERY DAY INC: $101,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE INC: $94,895 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $90,750 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $88,000 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $84,182 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $62,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARENT ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 102 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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