How much did Robert W Deutsch Foundation grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$15MCommunity Improvement$8.8MEducation$2.3MPhilanthropy$870kYouth Development$728kEmployment$534kHuman Services$398kHousing & Shelter$238kOther$0

02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $74k
$10k–50k34 grants · $640k
$50k–250k20 grants · $1.5M
$250k+3 grants · $1.6M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$136M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BALTIMORE ARTS REALTY CORPORATION	$638,000
FRACTURED ATLAS	$541,512
REBUILD METRO	$403,000
OPEN WORKS	$210,000
THE BALTIMORE BANNER	$150,000
BALTIMORE UNITED IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (BUILD)	$150,000
THE CENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC	$100,000
MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK	$90,250
CITY NEIGHBORS FOUNDATION	$75,000
JACOB'S PILLOW	$75,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS	$66,000
STATES NEWSROOM	$60,000
COLLEGE BOUND FOUNDATION	$60,000
MARYLAND ART PLACE	$59,400
Individual grant recipient	$52,500

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $502k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$26M · 90 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

90 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125

Total granted

$26M

$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+37%

Still filing today

68%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther

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

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OPEN WORKS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +86% · 42% of their budget
FRACTURED ATLAS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +71%
RM
REBUILD METRO INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +195%

Funded once

BA
BALTIMORE ARTS REALTY CORPORATION
one grant, 2020 · $912k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $203k
EP
ENOCH PRATT LIBRARY
one grant, 2020 · $193k

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.

Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc

Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.

Human Services

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

Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…

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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

Baltimore Community Lending Inc

The mission of baltimore community lending is supporting the revitalization and strengthening of underserved communities in the greater baltimore region through innovative financial solutions and collaborative resources designed to promote…

Community Improvement

Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture

Live Baltimore Home Center Inc

Live baltimores mission is to recruit and retain baltimore city residents.

Community Improvement

Emerging Technology Centers Inc

To foster a transformative community of tech-savvy, innovative, entrepenurial people looking for creative collaboration to accelerate their growth potential and make powerful economic impact on the City of Baltimore and beyond.

Community Improvement

Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation

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Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc

To collect, preserve, and interpret the industrial and technological heritage of the baltimore region for the public by presenting educational programs and exhibits that explore the stories of maryland's industries and the people who…

Arts & Culture

Maryland Center On Economic Policy Inc

The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.

Social Science

Baltimore Public Media Corporation

We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network and the most unlike its peers is Maryland Matters 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 18 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

7/159

the rest of the field

13%

3,106/24,004

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

143 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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 143 of the 248 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

133/143

Grantees still filing

91/143

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$12,953,709Arts & Culture$7,961,478Other$6,674,926Education$1,969,309Youth Development$580,600Human Services$495,355Environment$400,400

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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.

The Abell Foundation IncMD126.2× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Civic Fund 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 Robert W Deutsch Foundation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

31get no government money at all

46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

5rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robert W Deutsch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert W Deutsch Foundation 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.

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