· Private foundation
The Alvin and Fanny B Thalheimer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE ALVIN AND FANNY B THALHEIMER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $875k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $278,314 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $250,000 |
| STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC | $250,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $250,000 |
| YOUTH REPRESENT | $250,000 |
| THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC DBA TAKEROOT JUSTICE | $125,000 |
| ADELANTE LATINA INC | $100,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $100,000 |
| WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE | $100,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC | $50,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $23,313 |
| BUILDING STEPS | $20,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% 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.
27 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +326%- HCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC4× · 2017–2024 · $568k · revenue +16%
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC4× · 2020–2024 · $538k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TCThalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund Incone grant, 2017 · $9.2M · revenue -86% · 99% of their budget
- CFCOLEMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $9.0M
- MIMaryland Instituteone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -1%
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.
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Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 108 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.
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- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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- Who funds YOUTH REPRESENT INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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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 · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Sherman Family Foundation
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 Alvin and Fanny B Thalheimer Foundation Inc 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.
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Maryland Humanities Council Inc — 60% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Mercy Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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