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Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable 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.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$702kEducation$242kReligion$74kArts & Culture$72kPhilanthropy$51kCrime & Legal$37kHuman Services$20kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $162k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,000
THE MARYLAND OPERA$25,000
B'NAI TORAH CONGREGATION$18,000
GBMC FOUNDATION$16,420
THE ASSOCIATED$12,600
THE ASSOCIATED$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$10,000
SPANISH RIVER CONCERT INC$10,000
KENNEDY KREIGER INSTITUTE$10,000
SPANISH RIVER CONCERT INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
STEVENSON UNIVERSITY$5,325
ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY$5,000
BALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL - SCOUTING AMERICA$5,000
KENNEDY KREIGER INSTITUTE$5,000
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 (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH: $15k → 11%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH: $5k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 76%.

Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 16 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$911k
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+54%

Still filing today

69%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SH
    SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $242k · revenue +25%
  • EP
    ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +37%
  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $141k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UF
    UM-SFMC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • TJ
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
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
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
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
4
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
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…

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6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
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
8
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
9
University of Maryland Neurology 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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10
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
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 Gbmc Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shoresh Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $242,000 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INCLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $141,000 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INCGBMC FOUNDATION INC: $51,420 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATION INCTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $25,000 · HealthTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL+1 more: $7,000 · HealthUM-SFMC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUM-SFMC FOUNDATIONSAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUN…THE ASSOCIATED: $39,200 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATEDIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBNAI TORAH CONGREGATION: $23,000 · OtherBNAI TORAH CONGREGATIONKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 · OtherBETH EL CONGREGATION: $13,500 · Other+10 more: $64,300 · Other+10 moreENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $160,000 · EducationENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRA…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $16,746 · Education+4 moreMaryland Opera Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $36,500 · Crime & LegalSpanish River Concerts Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureONE FAMILY FUND: $20,000 · InternationalHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $20,000 · Human Services
Health$466,420Other$360,000Education$246,746Philanthropy$78,000Crime & Legal$36,500Arts & Culture$22,000International$20,000Human Services$20,000

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 budgetSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $242,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $160,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $141,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Opera Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $36,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetShoresh Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $5,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIvymount Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $3,421 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLyric Foundation Inc: $1,000 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.

Associated Jewish Cha…Baltimore Community F…The Phyllis L & Leona…Pechter Family Founda…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman Foundation Inc · Pechter Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Lyric Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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

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Find your warmest path to Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable 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 38 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.

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