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The Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund Inc at a glance

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The Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$12MReligion$778kInternational$734kHuman Services$669kRecreation & Sports$151kCivil Rights$100kArts & Culture$79kHealth$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $534k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE$1,541,684
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$230,000
PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER$150,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$100,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$54,000
70 FACES MEDIA$25,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 17%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100k → 14%ANNN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%CAMPS AIRY AND LOUISE: $100k → 19%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 17%INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE: $10k → 14%PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER: $150k → 11%CAMP AIRY AND LOUISE: $50k → 19%70 FACES MEDIA: $25k → 17%INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE: $10k → 14%PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER: $150k → 11%70 FACES MEDIA: $15k → 17%PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER: $150k → 11%70 FACES MEDIA: $10k → 17%PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER: $75k → 11%PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER: $70k → 11%PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER: $65k → 11%FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA: $27k → 17%JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $32k → 17%HILLEL OF TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.6M → 19%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $210k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.5M → 19%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $230k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $136k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.5M → 19%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $105k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $100k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.5M → 19%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $65k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $85k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.4M → 19%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $56k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $63k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.4M → 19%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $54k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $25k → 11%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.1M → 19%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $50k → 17%ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $1.0M → 19%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $40k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $36k → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $200k → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $200k → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $156k → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $150k → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $150k → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $150k → 17%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 11 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$13M
$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AI
    ADAMAH INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $660k · revenue +128%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $619k · revenue +28%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CA
    CAMPS AIRY AND LOUISE
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • JG
    JEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · 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.

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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
3
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

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…

Community Improvement
4
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
5
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

—
6
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
7
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
10
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
11
Israeli-American Council

The organization's mission is to build an engaged and united israeli-american community that strengthens the israeli and jewish identity of our next generation, the american-jewish community and the bond between the peoples of the united…

Human Services
12
Israel-America Academic Exchange

Israel-america academic exchange (iaae) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is todeepen the understanding of israel and the middle east within the international academiccommunity. the organization organizes educational missions and…

International
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 Project Street Vet. 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 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $11,011,184 · PhilanthropyTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INCTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,006,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $546,360 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,055 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC: $618,500 · OtherCAMPS AIRY AND LOUISE: $100,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 · Other+9 more: $96,856 · OtherADAMAH INC: $660,000 · ReligionJEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Religion+1 more: $20,000 · ReligionBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $60,000 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $20,000 · International+1 more: $664 · International70 FACES MEDIA INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $12,165 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $25,000 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $2,500 · Health
Philanthropy$12,567,599Other$915,356Religion$730,000International$207,664Arts & Culture$79,165Recreation & Sports$51,000Health$27,500

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 budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC: $11,011,184 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,006,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetADAMAH INC: $660,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC: $618,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $546,360 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $27,100 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $12,165 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,055 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT STREET VET: $200 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 Joseph Meyerhoff …David & Barbara B Hir…Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Program …Number Ten Foundation…The Aaron & Lillie St…Blanket Fort Foundati…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund IncMD17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Number Ten Foundation Inc · The Aaron & Lillie Straus Fdn Inc 9830002 · Blanket Fort Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore 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
  • The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund 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 31 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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