· Private foundation
The Alsop Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP | $40,000 |
| PEABODY INSTITUTE OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV | $5,000 |
| ORCHKIDS | $5,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,300 |
| THE MASTERS SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EUGENE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS | $500 |
| INTERSECTION | $250 |
| INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTORS GUILD | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTTHE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +113%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +68%
- MSMASTERS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TCTAKI CONCORDIA CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIone grant, 2017 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The society was created to support a chorus, which performs public concerts of choral & orchestra music. the mission is to build a stronger, more connected, more inspired community by celebrating the joy of choral music through exceptional…
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Masters School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE TAKI ALSOP CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eugene Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FREESTATE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERSECTION ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Climate Access Fund Corporation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NECK ORCHESTRA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland 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 Alsop Family 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.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Eugene Symphony Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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