Maryland · Private foundation
The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 92
- Grants FY2024
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $871,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 85 to 96
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $45M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 89 | $4.1M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $2.9M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $2.4M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 90 | $2.3M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 96 | $2.8M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 85 | $2.0M | 27% |
| FY2017 | 96 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc | $1,925,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc | $1,546,400 | 8 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc | $512,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Maryland Food Bank Inc | $484,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fund for Educational Excellence Inc | $449,400 | 8 | 1% |
| Baltimore Museum of Art | $430,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Healthy Neighborhoods Inc | $428,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc | $417,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc | $395,965 | 8 | 3% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $385,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 168 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 155 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc
- How much does The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc give?
- The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc reported 92 grants totaling $4,177,944 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 85 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (18%), Arts & Culture (18%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc ($1.9M), The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc ($1.5M), Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc ($513k).
- Does The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Foundation.
- Where is The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc based?
- The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc is based in MD.
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