· Private foundation
The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation 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
- Under $10k39 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k93 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k85 grants · $5.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc | $650,000 |
| The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc | $650,000 |
| Accelerate Change | $450,000 |
| Equis Institute | $200,000 |
| Ground Game Fund | $200,000 |
| Ground Game Fund | $150,000 |
| Verified Voting Foundation | $150,000 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc | $150,000 |
| National Health Law Program | $115,000 |
| World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd | $110,000 |
| Asylum Access | $100,000 |
| Mental Health Association of Maryland Inc | $100,000 |
| Jewish Council for Public Affairs | $100,000 |
| American Jewish World Service | $100,000 |
| Repair the World | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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 Jacob and Hilda Blaustein 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. Read by recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 48% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
190 repeat relationships — 121 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 26 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +326%- JCJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +11%
BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- GHGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +52%
- THTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +26%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $120k · revenue +32%
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 establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Inform the public and policymakers about the clear benefits of nuclear energy and support policy solutions that properly value nuclear energy as a reliable, affordable, safe and clean energy source.
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…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
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…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
263 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. 263 of the 297 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM ACCESS ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Israels Environment ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMAH INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
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 Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn 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 Jacob and Hilda Blaustein 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Ridge to Reefs Inc — 33% of income from government
- Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 16% of income from government
- Healthy Neighborhoods Inc — 16% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Disability Rights Fund Inc — 10% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Center for Supportive Schools Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Restorative Response Baltimore Inc — 4% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless 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
- Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence 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
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Holistic Life 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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