· Private foundation
The Nelson & Sara Fishman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
Anchored by a single position: about 94% of reported assets are held in Simon & Quick Bv.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Beth Am - Carob Tree Fund | $50,000 |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | $50,000 |
| Planned Parenthood National | $20,000 |
| Enoch Pratt Free Library | $15,000 |
| WYPR | $15,000 |
| Jewish National Fund | $15,000 |
| Technion | $12,500 |
| Maryland Public Television | $12,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of MD | $12,000 |
| Beth Am | $11,934 |
| The Associated | $10,000 |
| Baltimore Museum of Art | $10,000 |
| Fuel Fund of Maryland | $9,000 |
| Mazon | $9,000 |
| Maryland Food Bank | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Nelson & Sara Fishman Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +82%
- EPENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY6× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +37%
- BPBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TAThe Associated - Emergency Fundone grant, 2023 · $25k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +39%- BABeth Am - Specialone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
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…
Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
The associated: jewish community federation of baltimore strengthens and nurtures jewish life by engaging and supporting community partners in greater baltimore, israel, and around the world. continued on schedule osince 1920, the…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 46 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.
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- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
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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 · The Abell Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nelson & Sara Fishman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nelson & Sara Fishman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc: 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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