· Private foundation
The Kahlert Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k95 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k100 grants · $8.6M
- $250k+22 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $2,325,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC | $1,500,000 |
| CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION | $756,179 |
| SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC | $750,000 |
| GBMC INC | $700,000 |
| MCDANIEL COLLEGE | $625,000 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $601,500 |
| HOWARD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $600,000 |
| 5 FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS | $600,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF UTAH INC | $600,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CARROLL COUNTY | $500,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH UTAH | $500,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 7% of The Kahlert 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 +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
279 repeat relationships — 173 still active in FY2025, 106 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
- CHCARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +66%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +60%
- GHGBMC HEALTHCARE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $5.3M · revenue ×40 · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- UVUTAH VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $600k
- LHLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH SINAI HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $250k
- SPSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +36%
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.
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,…
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 mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
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…
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daily Bread Basket 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 30 years old; the field is 15. 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 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
316 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. 316 of the 448 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 CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GBMC HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
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 United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Bunting Family Foundation · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles 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 Kahlert 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.
- POWER52 Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- The Howard County Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chase Brexton Health Services 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
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Northwest Hospital Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mercy Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Howard County General Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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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