· Private foundation
The Alsop Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EUGENE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTORS GUILD | $250 |
| INTERSECTION | $250 |
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 (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 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 +57% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 54 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
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 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 INTERSECTION ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- 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 THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Climate Access Fund Corporation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NECK ORCHESTRA CORPORATION ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alsop Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alsop Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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