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The Alvin and Fanny B Thalheimer Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$278k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$9.6MHousing & Shelter$9.6MEducation$3.2MArts & Culture$605kFood & Nutrition$568kCrime & Legal$403kEnvironment$250kHuman Services$238kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $875k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
$125,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART$200,000
THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$200,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC DBA TAKEROOT JUSTICE$125,000
ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC$100,000
WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE$100,000
ADELANTE LATINA INC$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 22%RED HOOK INITIATIVE INC: $5k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE: $5k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $5k → 20%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $25k → 11%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES INC: $5k → 19%YOUTH EMPOWERED SOCIETY: $15k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $20k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $13k → 19%ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100k → 19%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $20k → 19%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $10k → 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
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 27 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
69

Total granted

$3.0M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+60%

Still filing today

81%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthReligionOther
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

  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +326%
  • HC
    HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $568k · revenue +16%
  • TM
    THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $538k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TC
    Thalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $9.2M · revenue -86% · 99% of their budget
  • CF
    COLEMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9.0M
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +4%
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
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
2
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education
8
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
9
Baltimore Area Health Education Center

To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…

Health
10
Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…

Education
11
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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12
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/88
Grantees still filing
66/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLEMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $9,045,000 · OtherCOLEMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $568,314 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $538,313 · Other+49 more: $1,866,912 · Other+49 moreThalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund Inc: $9,200,000 · PhilanthropyThalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund Inc+7 more: $160,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $645,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDU…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKIN…Maryland Institute: $500,000 · EducationMaryland Ins…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $250,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUB…SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $200,000 · EducationSARAH LAWREN…ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $120,000 · EducationIMPROVING EDUCATION INC: $105,000 · Education+18 more: $540,000 · Education+18 moreBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $200,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID BUREAU INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesYouth Empowerment Society Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $12,500 · Human Services+5 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $250,000 · Environment
Other$12,018,539Philanthropy$9,360,000Education$2,860,000Arts & Culture$605,000Crime & Legal$270,000Human Services$257,500Environment$250,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund Inc: $9,200,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $645,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $568,314 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $538,313 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Institute: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADELANTE LATINA INC: $110,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetIMPROVING EDUCATION INC: $105,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $82,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc: $72,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetCIVIC WORKS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDENT EDUCATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHOPE IGNITES BALTIMORE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKIPP BALTIMORE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Kesher: $35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRaising A Reader: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF MARYLAND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHEPHERDS CLINIC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEGAL AID BUREAU INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTNTP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $19,412 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Abell Foundation …Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…T Rowe Price Foundati…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…Annie E Casey Foundat…Associated Jewish Cha…The Jacob and Hilda B…Brown Advisory Charit…T Rowe Price Program …Sherman Family Founda…
The Abell Foundation IncMD59.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Alvin and Fanny B Thalheimer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alvin and Fanny B Thalheimer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Alvin and Fanny B Thalheimer Foundation Inc 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 108 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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