· Public charity
The Lawrence and Ellen Macks Family Foundation of Maryland Inc
See schedule othe foundation was created to carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the associated: jewish community federation of baltimore, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $175,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $220,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $75,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% 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.
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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TATHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $658k · revenue +8%
- TUTHE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +8%
- SDSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -17%
- OSOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- SHSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
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.
Lifebridge health is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health and well-being of all people in greater baltimore, with special emphasis on baltimore city and baltimore and carroll counties. in so doing, lifebridge is committed to…
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…
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
See schedule othe foundation was created to carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the associated: jewish community federation of baltimore, inc. (the associated). the foundation makes grants to public charitable…
Support and encourage quality health care, medical, and related services across anne arundel, prince george's, calvert, queen anne's, and talbot and kent counties, by among other activities, conducting fundraising and other operations for…
To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…
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…
Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…
To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 LAWRENCE AND ELLEN MACKS FAMILY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Dicarlo Plank Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lawrence and Ellen Macks Family Foundation of Maryland 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.
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 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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