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The Ochs Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2022
19
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

91% of The Ochs Family Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Ochs Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $120k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

17
’20
17
’21
16
’22
1
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Philanthropy$892kReligion$271kHealth$67kInternational$41kHousing & Shelter$32kEducation$27kAnimals$12kScience & Tech$7kOther$0
02FY2022 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k17 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hunt's United Methodist Church$65,000
General Board of Global Ministries (UMCOR)$17,000
Baltimore Outreach Services$5,000
Helping Up Mission Inc$5,000
The Hearing and Speech Agency of Metropolitan Baltimore Inc$5,000
Bello Machre Inc$5,000
Southwest Baltimore Charter School$4,000
Duke University$3,000
The William S Baer School Partnership Board$2,000
Maryland Science Center$1,000
Cato Institute$1,000
The Roland Park Baseball League Inc$1,000
Maryland SPCA$1,000
Cornerstone Community Housing$1,000
National Aquarium in Baltimore$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Bello Machre Inc: $13k → 6%Baltimore Outreach Services: $13k → 19%Bello Machre Inc: $7k → 6%Baltimore Outreach Services: $7k → 19%Bello Machre Inc: $5k → 6%Baltimore Outreach Services: $5k → 19%Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 75% of The Ochs Family 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. Read by recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 22% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Ochs Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$407k · 19 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$407k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+59%

Still filing today

84%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

  • BM
    BELLO MACHRE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +115%
  • HU
    HELPING UP MISSION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • BO
    BALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF CHILD CARE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +59%
  • TC
    The Calvert Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
2
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
3
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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5
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health
6
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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7
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
8
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

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…

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10
Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education
11
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
12
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gateway Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helping Up Mission Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
17/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $887,340 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+1 more — $3,500 · PhilanthropyHUNTS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $205,762 · OtherHUNTS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIS…Hunt's United Methodist Church — $65,000 · OtherHunt's United Methodist ChurchGeneral Board of Global Ministries UMCOR — $41,000 · OtherGeneral Board of Global Minist…HELPING UP MISSION INC — $24,500 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCGATEWAY MARYLAND INC — $18,000 · Other+3 more — $7,900 · OtherBELLO MACHRE INC — $24,500 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $24,500 · Human ServicesBOARD OF CHILD CARE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $8,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · EducationENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $6,500 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $6,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $5,500 · AnimalsMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,500 · AnimalsCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY HOUSING INC — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $6,500 · Arts & CultureCATO INSTITUTE — $4,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$890,840Other$362,162Human Services$52,000Education$24,000Animals$17,500Housing & Shelter$7,500Arts & Culture$6,500Public Benefit$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $887,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLO MACHRE INC — $24,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $24,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $24,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGATEWAY MARYLAND INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY HOUSING INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROLAND PARK BASEBALL LEAGUES INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe William S Baer School — $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOARD OF CHILD CARE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Baltimore Community F…Middendorf Foundation…France-Merrick Founda…Brown Advisory Charit…T Rowe Price Program …The John J Leidy Foun…The United Way of Cen…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Ochs Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Community Housing Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines