How much did The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 grant in FY2024?

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

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

States reached

$76M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
OPEN WORKS	$75,000
Individual grant recipient	$75,000
DRINK AT THE WELL INC	$52,000
More to Her Story	$50,000
IMPACT HUB BALTIMORE	$50,000

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.

show:

Your 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 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 90 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you 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

102

Total granted

$20M

$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+27%

Still filing today

70%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

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

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.

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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University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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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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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

University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Health

University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Health

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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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

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/122

the rest of the field

14%

5,903/41,727

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

114 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. 114 of the 215 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)

111/114

Grantees still filing

79/114

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$9,806,157Other$10,280,486Education$1,439,887Employment$905,104Health$851,250Human Services$833,500Civil Rights$585,000

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.

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

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 The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 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

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

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

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How do I get to The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002?

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.

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