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The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 at a glance

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The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$11MEducation$2.7MHealth$2.0MHuman Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEmployment$905kCrime & Legal$648kArts & Culture$470kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Camp Airy and Louise Foundation$1,460,200
ASYLEE WOMEN ENTERPRISE$150,000
Esperanza Center-Associated$137,000
HEAL Hopkins Esperanza and Loyola$125,000
Center for Hope Inc$108,500
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journ$100,000
CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP$100,000
Centro SOLJohns Hopkins University$100,000
TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER$95,000
Johns Hopkins University$80,612
Individual grant recipient$75,000
OPEN WORKS$75,000
DRINK AT THE WELL INC$52,000
CASH Campaign of Maryland Inc$50,000
More to Her Story$50,000
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 (FY18–24, $834k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Cherry Hill Strong: $100k → 6%CHERRY HILL STRONG: $50k → 6%BELEV ECHAD: $2k → 17%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $50k → 19%Drink at the Well Inc: $90k → 19%Drink at The Well Inc: $55k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $55k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $52k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $50k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $50k → 19%Drink at the Well Inc: $1k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $1k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $1k → 19%The Chill Station: $20k → 19%Maryland Family Network: $7k → 19%CASH Campaign of Maryland Inc: $50k → 19%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $50k → 19%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $50k → 19%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $50k → 19%CASH Campaign of Maryland Inc: $50k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 90 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
102

Total granted

$20M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $769k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman 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

  • TC
    THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +56% · 69% of their budget
  • BC
    BALTIMORE CORPS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $905k · revenue ×35
  • IE
    IMPROVING EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $393k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • CA
    Camp Airy and Camp Louise Fnd
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS CENTRO SOL
    one grant, 2022 · $201k
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER CENTRO SOL
    one grant, 2017 · $168k
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 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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2
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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3
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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4
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
5
University of Maryland Eye 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
6
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
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 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
9
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
10
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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11
Blackbird Laboratories Inc

Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

115 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. 115 of the 215 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/115
Grantees still filing
81/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC: $9,622,557 · Recreation & SportsTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $183,600 · Recreation & SportsTHE ASSOCIATED: $2,008,600 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATEDCamp Airy and Camp Louise Fnd: $1,303,700 · OtherCamp Airy and Camp Louise FndCENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP: $855,000 · OtherCENTRAL SCHOLARSHIPIMPACT HUB BALTIMORE INC: $400,000 · Other+143 more: $5,713,186 · Other+143 moreTeach for America Inc: $475,000 · EducationIMPROVING EDUCATION INC: $393,450 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LAB: $100,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $80,612 · EducationDENT EDUCATION INC: $50,875 · Education+15 more: $239,950 · EducationBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $905,104 · EmploymentLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $329,500 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $100,000 · HealthBEHAVORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMS BALTIMORE: $80,000 · HealthCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $50,000 · HealthMOMCARES: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $50,000 · HealthMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $35,000 · HealthNOLAN ROBISON FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Health+11 more: $126,750 · HealthDRINK AT THE WELL INC: $355,000 · Human ServicesCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesCHERRY HILL STRONG INC: $150,000 · Human Services+3 more: $28,500 · Human ServicesACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC: $310,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $275,000 · Civil Rights
Recreation & Sports$9,806,157Other$10,280,486Education$1,439,887Employment$905,104Health$851,250Human Services$833,500Civil Rights$585,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC: $9,622,557 over 7y, 69% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $905,104 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $475,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIMPROVING EDUCATION INC: $393,450 over 5y, 13% of budgetDRINK AT THE WELL INC: $355,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $329,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC: $310,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $300,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetAsylee Women Enterprise Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $275,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN WORKS INC: $210,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHERRY HILL STRONG INC: $150,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetPRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC: $117,366 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $117,200 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $103,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $82,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $80,612 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAVORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMS BALTIMORE: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $76,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $70,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC: $61,600 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetMaryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetADELANTE LATINA INC: $52,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetDENT EDUCATION INC: $50,875 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOMCARES: $50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $39,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $37,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $36,422 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNOLAN ROBISON FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $25,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMaryland Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds IMPROVING EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DRINK AT THE WELL INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Asylee Women Enterprise Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OPEN WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHERRY HILL STRONG INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
  • Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds THE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD 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.

Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …Associated Jewish Cha…The Harry and Jeanett…The Morris Goldseker …T Rowe Price Foundati…France-Merrick Founda…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Jacob and Hilda B…The United Way of Cen…The Joseph Meyerhoff …Brown Advisory Charit…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD77.8× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · Brown Advisory 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 The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Maryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Open Works Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Maryland Family Network Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc: 51% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Asylee Women Enterprise Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Baltimore Corps 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
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore: 1% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 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 215 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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