· Private foundation
The Ludwig and Nancy Sternberger Charitable Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $444k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC | $90,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $54,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $28,500 |
| VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC | $25,000 |
| GIRLS FOR A CHANGE | $25,000 |
| HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT INC | $15,000 |
| ART WITH A HEART INC | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INFORMED EXPERIENCES INC | $7,500 |
| CHESTNUT RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +42%- TWTHE WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN5× · 2017–2022 · $484k · revenue +48%
- TVTHE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TDTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +24%
- BABALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +32%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission is implemented through: intentional art collecting in the focus areas of american art and world cultures, barrier free public access and free admission to art collections of national importance, vigilant preservation and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
To create visual arts experiences that engage people and inspire learning through exceptional exhibitions, collections, and educational opportunities.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
The mission of the muscarelle museum of art is to foster the full integration of a dynamic art museum into the life and liberal arts mission of william & mary and to serve as a model of curatorial excellence and a catalyst for art…
Washington project for the arts, inc. (wpa) supports artist-driven projects, advocacy, and dialogue so that artists can live, work, and flourish.
Promotes the arts and related activities at local, state and national levels
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHESTNUT RIDGE VOL FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds GUNPOWDER VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
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 · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ludwig and Nancy Sternberger Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ludwig and Nancy Sternberger Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc: 20% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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