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Pearlstone Family Fund Inc

See schedule othe foundation was created to carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the associated jewish community federation of baltimore, inc.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$670k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$3.3MInternational$497kPublic Benefit$390kEducation$380kArts & Culture$276kCommunity Improvement$260kScience & Tech$250kEnvironment$245kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $1,100,511 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,274,393 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $173,882 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
  • $250k+1 grant · $670k
$32,916
Median grant
5
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE$670,050
ADAMAH$100,000
CLAL$75,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL NORTH AMERICA$50,000
WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC$50,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE$36,000
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART$32,916
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENIX$25,000
BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION$19,045
SANDRA DAY OCONNOR INSTITUTE$15,000
CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$7,500
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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BALTIMORE CONNECT: $25k → 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 17 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$5.1M
$417k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+33%

Still filing today

94%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • CN
    CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +52%
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $287k · revenue +93%
  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $239k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $253k · revenue 0%
  • BT
    BETH TFILOH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -90%
  • BC
    BALTIMORE CONNECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +97%

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 Jewish Council Inc

To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…

Education
2
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

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

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4
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…

—
5
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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6
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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9
Jews United for Justice Inc

Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.

Religion
10
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…

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11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr20%14%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%74%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
12%
3,631/31,314

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

28 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. 28 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $3,149,254 · PhilanthropyTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC+2 more — $107,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $287,350 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY …AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIE…AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — $180,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAE…+2 more — $30,000 · InternationalCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC — $375,000 · ReligionCLAL-THE NA…ADAMAH INC — $225,000 · ReligionADAMAH INC+1 more — $10,000 · ReligionTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $252,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $22,500 · EducationCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationBETH TFILOH CONGREGATION — $89,225 · OtherTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC — $55,100 · OtherBETH TFILOH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC — $50,000 · OtherGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC — $20,000 · OtherBALTIMORE CONNECT INC — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $20,000 · Other+3 more — $17,776 · OtherBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $239,416 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $25,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $11,400 · Arts & CultureWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$3,256,754International$747,350Religion$610,000Education$295,000Other$327,101Arts & Culture$276,316Community Improvement$275,000

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 budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $3,149,254 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC — $375,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $287,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $252,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $239,416 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetADAMAH INC — $225,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC — $60,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC — $55,100 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBETH TFILOH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC — $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CONNECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Baltimore Station Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Judi & Steven B Fader…Associated Jewish Cha…The Harry and Jeanett…T Rowe Price Program …Baltimore Community F…Crane Family Foundati…American Endowment Fo…Number Ten Foundation…The Bunting Family Fo…T Rowe Price Foundati…Brown Advisory Charit…The Abell Foundation …
Judi & Steven B Fader Family Foundation IncMD22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Judi & Steven B Fader Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Number Ten Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc

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 Pearlstone Family Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Station Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report 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

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 Pearlstone Family Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pearlstone Family Fund 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 31 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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