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The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$253kFood & Nutrition$103kHousing & Shelter$91kArts & Culture$74kYouth Development$60kHuman Services$51kHealth$11kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
$20,468
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC$20,468
BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC$20,468
FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR$20,468
INGENUITY PROJECT INC$6,823
PROJECT PLASE INC$6,823
ANIMAL ALLIES RESCUE FOUNDATION INC$6,823
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 (FY17–25, $61k) 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%BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $20k → 19%TURNAROUND INC: $6k → 11%BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $18k → 19%ART WITH A HEART INC: $7k → 19%MARIAN HOUSE INC: $9k → 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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$523k · 13 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$523k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+140%

Still filing today

92%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +82%
  • BS
    Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $58k · revenue +10%
  • TI
    The Ingenuity Project Inc
    5× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • NO
    NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -7%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
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
Manna House Inc

To offer assistance and support to the homeless, poor and needy of baltimore with services contributing toward their independence and stability.

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3
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
4
Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development
5
Baltimore Montessori Inc

To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.

Education
6
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
7
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

—
8
Baltimore Action Legal Team Inc

Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.

Human Services
9
Kipp Baltimore Inc

The mission of kipp baltimore is to create and operate public schools in baltimore city that lead students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and a diversity of skill levels to attend and succeed in four-year colleges.

Education
10
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…

Education
11
Bridges Baltimore Inc

Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; the most unlike its peers is Miriam Lodge Independent Order-Kesher. 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

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $43,490 · OtherCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATIONTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $29,308 · OtherTHE FAMILY TREE INCMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $25,869 · OtherMOVEABLE FEAST INCLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC: $21,352 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INCSAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $15,176 · OtherSAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - HEART AND VASCULAR INST: $10,676 · OtherMIRIAM LODGE INDEPENDENT ORDER-KESHER: $10,577 · OtherHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $9,071 · OtherPACT HELPING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $7,670 · OtherHearts Place Services Inc: $36,347 · OtherHearts Place Services Inc+2 more: $13,646 · Other+2 moreThe Ingenuity Project Inc: $51,185 · EducationThe Ingenuity Proje…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $43,145 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVE…FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $20,468 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE …STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $40,478 · Food & NutritionSTUDENT SUPPO…MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $36,294 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEE…BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $63,014 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SY…ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $10,577 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEA…BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $38,673 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE …MARIAN HOUSE INC: $8,987 · Human ServicesMARIAN HOU…Art With a Heart Inc: $7,444 · Human ServicesArt With a…TURNAROUND INC: $6,189 · Human ServicesTURNAROUND…THREAD INC: $41,894 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INCNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $18,142 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT ONE U…Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc: $57,992 · EmploymentBuilding …
Other$223,182Education$114,798Food & Nutrition$76,772Arts & Culture$73,591Human Services$61,293Youth Development$60,036Employment$57,992

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 budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $63,014 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc: $57,992 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc: $51,185 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $43,490 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $43,145 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHREAD INC: $41,894 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $40,478 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $38,673 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHearts Place Services Inc: $36,347 over 2y, 19% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $36,294 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $29,308 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $25,869 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $20,468 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $18,142 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $10,577 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $9,071 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARIAN HOUSE INC: $8,987 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACT HELPING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $7,670 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAnimal Allies Rescue Foundation Inc: $6,823 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROJECT PLASE INC: $6,823 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNAROUND INC: $6,189 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …Annie E Casey Foundat…The Harry and Jeanett…T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…France-Merrick Founda…The John J Leidy Foun…T Rowe Price Foundati…Associated Jewish Cha…Thomas Wilson Sanitar…Sherman Family Founda…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD35.5× affinity15 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 · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · 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 Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grunwald Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Project Plase Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Turnaround Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Pact Helping Children With Special Needs Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Marian House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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