· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| IRC'S CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | $250,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE | $250,000 |
| THE SAMARITAN COMMUNITY | $150,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSING | $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 |
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 (FY19–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Hackerman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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.
How this is measured
110 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. 110 of the 247 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds IRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hackerman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hackerman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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