· Private foundation
Robert W Deutsch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $640k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE ARTS REALTY CORPORATION | $638,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $541,512 |
| REBUILD METRO | $403,000 |
| OPEN WORKS | $210,000 |
| BALTIMORE UNITED IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (BUILD) | $150,000 |
| THE BALTIMORE BANNER | $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 |
| COLLEGE BOUND FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| STATES NEWSROOM | $60,000 |
| MARYLAND ART PLACE | $59,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OWOPEN WORKS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +86% · 42% of their budget
FRACTURED ATLAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +71%- RMREBUILD METRO INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +195%
Funded once
- BABALTIMORE ARTS REALTY CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $912k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $203k
- EPENOCH PRATT LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $193k
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.
Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Live baltimores mission is to recruit and retain baltimore city residents.
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.
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…
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.
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
How this is measured
143 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. 143 of the 248 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BALTIMORE ARTS REALTY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD METRO INC ↗
- Who funds Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development Inc ↗
- Who funds City Neighbors Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CityLit Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Turnaround Tuesday Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM ↗
- Who funds The Ingenuity Project Inc ↗
- Who funds I AM MENTALITY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds PCS FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds STATES NEWSROOM ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD JOHNSTON SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ROCK OPERA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert W Deutsch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert W Deutsch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
- World Arts Focus: 100% of income from government
- St James Development Corporation Inc: 100% of income from government
- Open Works Inc: 96% of income from government
- Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation: 77% of income from government
- Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: 49% of income from government
- Central Baltimore Partnership Inc: 46% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp: 28% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc: 26% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc: 23% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
- Jubilee Baltimore Inc: 16% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc: 15% of income from government
- CityLit Project Inc: 15% of income from government
- Neighborhood Design Center Inc: 14% 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
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
- 4MyCity Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc: 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc: 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc: 5% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc: 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc: 4% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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