· Private foundation
The Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $534k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of your 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.
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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- AIADAMAH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $660k · revenue +128%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $619k · revenue +28%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CACAMPS AIRY AND LOUISEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TCTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
- JGJEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
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 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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
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…
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…
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…
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 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.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 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
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 THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STREET VET ↗
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: 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
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 Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund 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.
- 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
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.
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