Skip to content
Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$3.7MEducation$2.8MReligion$800kHuman Services$430kFood & Nutrition$80kInternational$80kYouth Development$80kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
  • $250k+2 grants · $700k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$400,000
UNIV OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CTR$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$200,000
STEVENSON UNIVERSITY$100,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND$100,000
GBMC$100,000
EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC$100,000
SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB METRO BALTIMORE$35,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
COMMUNITY FND OF HARFORD COUNTY$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARFORD COUNTY$20,000
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISSION OF MERCY INC: $10k → 6%DEEP ROOTS INC: $5k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $100k → 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 19%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $20k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $5k → 7%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 16 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$7.8M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+35%

Still filing today

63%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • SU
    STEVENSON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +28%
  • SD
    SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +30%
  • ED
    EASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • KK
    KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • MO
    Maryland Opera Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
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
University of Maryland Pediatric 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
2
University of Maryland Family Medicine 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…

—
3
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
4
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
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
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates 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…

Education
7
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
8
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine 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
9
University of Maryland Dermatologists 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
10
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…

—
11
University of Maryland Surgical 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 Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 32 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $2,400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIV OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CTR: $1,160,000 · OtherUNIV OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CTRGBMC: $700,000 · OtherGBMCSAINTS PETER AND PAUL PARISH: $300,000 · OtherSAINTS PETER AND PAUL PARISHUM ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FND: $250,000 · Other+12 more: $590,000 · Other+12 moreSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $2,200,000 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY+1 more: $20,000 · EducationSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesEASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $45,000 · Human Services+4 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $25,000 · AnimalsMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $10,000 · HealthASHLEY INC: $10,000 · HealthSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $5,000 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · International
Other$5,400,000Education$2,220,000Human Services$425,000Youth Development$35,000Animals$25,000Health$25,000International$10,000

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 budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $2,200,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEASTON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $145,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Opera Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExtreme Family Outreach Minist: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetASHLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Dresher Foundatio…The Emmert Hobbs Foun…France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…Herman & Walter Samue…Community Foundation …The Harry and Jeanett…The Kahlert Foundatio…Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
The Dresher Foundation IncMD19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dresher Foundation Inc · The Emmert Hobbs Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Harford County Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Harford Family House Inc: 14% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: 2% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Philip a Zaffere Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Philip a Zaffere 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 32 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Philip a Zaffere’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home