· Private foundation
The Hackerman 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k54 grants · $229k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $954k
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+9 grants · $7.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $3,955,869 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTIONCOMMITTEE INC | $1,000,000 |
| ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC | $800,000 |
| TURNAROUND INC | $630,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $500,000 |
| YESHIVAS OHR YISSOCHOR ACADEMY INC | $300,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE | $250,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| IRC'S CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | $250,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSING | $150,000 |
| THE SAMARITAN COMMUNITY | $150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE | $150,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC | $140,000 |
| CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND | $125,000 |
| THE IDI FOUNDATION INC | $100,020 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Hackerman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 60 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +40%- TITURNAROUND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $829k · revenue +160%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $601k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- AJASSOC JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION - BALTOone grant, 2019 · $800k
- SOSEASON OF JUSTICE CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $165k · revenue -22%
- LHLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +9%
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 baltimore torah school, inc., a boys school for grades 8- 12, is to produce young men who are motivated to find satisfaction and joy in learning and serving g-d, capable of advancing to excellent advanced jewish study…
The purpose of the organization (the school) will be accomplished solely by providing a jewish and secular secondary education to students in baltimore, maryland
The organization is a voluntary health and welfare organization dedicated to serving the baltimore community by identifying, anticipating and addressing the needs of jewish patients and their families confronting a myriad of medical…
The yeshiva of greater washington is an orthodox jewish middle school, high school, and rabbinic seminary. our mission is to root each student in torah, plant a passion for learning, and prepare them for life. this is accomplished through…
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…
To educate jewish women and help them reach a deeper understanding of judaic principles and apply such principles to their lives. these purposes are carried out through various classes, lectures and conferences, all of which focus on…
Bais yaakov of boston, the only all girls jewish high school in boston, is a college preparatory school that provides a comprehensive and challenging judaic and secular studies program. it offers orthodox jewish young women an environment…
To maintain a school for hebrew religious and secular education
To provide the highest quality jewish and general education for high school age children.
Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.
Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.
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 Baltimore Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 247 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YESHIVAS OHR YISSOCHOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds The Samaritan Community Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds IRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA 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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation 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 Hackerman 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.
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Maryland Casa Association Inc — 60% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
- Northbay Education Inc — 28% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Turnaround Inc — 18% 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
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- Mesivta Keren Orah — 10% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Bais Tova Inc — 7% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Women's Housing Coalition Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland 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
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Yehudi 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.