· Private foundation
The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg 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 $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC | $150,000 |
| LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH | $100,000 |
| URBAN ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| BUILDING STEPS | $50,000 |
| BLUE WATER BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE BE ORG | $50,000 |
| BRIDGES BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
| BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC | $50,000 |
| THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CIVIC WORKS INC | $50,000 |
| FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY-PEABODY INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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 8% of The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg 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 +38% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +82%
- TFTHE FAMILY TREE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +62%
- AFARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC5× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- NGNora's Gift Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -66%
- AHAmerican Heart Association-Mid Atlantic Affiliateone grant, 2019 · $63k
- BSBOYS SCHOOL OF ST PAUL'Sone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.
Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.
Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.
The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…
Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network and the most unlike its peers is Pickleberry Pie Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 134 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 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CODE IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE GREEN SPACE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Nora's Gift Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NPOWER 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy 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 Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg 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.
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc — 38% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Northbay Education Inc — 28% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Uplift Alliance Inc — 16% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Abilities Network Inc — 6% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation 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
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland 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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