How much did The Harvey M Meyerhoff Fund Inc grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE HARVEY M MEYERHOFF FUND INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k32 grants · $108k
$10k–50k31 grants · $459k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$84M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL INC	$80,000
NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE	$30,000
DYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM	$25,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SAIS	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION	$25,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV - PHOEBE R BERMAN BIOETHICS INSTITUTE	$25,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY	$25,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$20,000
BALTIMORE COUNTY SAILING CENTER	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART	$17,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$16,076
MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE	$13,000
WALTERS ART GALLERY	$12,500
BRODY JEWISH CENTER-HILLEL AT UVA	$12,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 98 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

98 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+26%

Still filing today

65%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

MW
Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $436k · revenue +36%
IF
INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +128%
NA
NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +45%

Funded once

JH
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - CLEFT & CRANIOFACIAL CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $100k
U
UMBC
one grant, 2023 · $15k
JH
JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW BURN CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education

The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Education

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ho Ho Ho Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/82

the rest of the field

14%

5,903/41,767

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.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 133 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/80

Grantees still filing

60/80

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,687,089Arts & Culture$669,800Education$542,950Health$502,900Animals$255,000Philanthropy$158,358Religion$125,000

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD39.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation

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 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Harvey M Meyerhoff Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Harvey M 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines