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The Ochs Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Bello Machre Inc$5,000
Helping Up Mission Inc$5,000
The Hearing and Speech Agency of Metropolitan Baltimore Inc$5,000
Southwest Baltimore Charter School$4,000
Duke University$3,000
The William S Baer School Partnership Board$2,000
Cato Institute$1,000
National Aquarium in Baltimore$1,000
The Roland Park Baseball League Inc$1,000
Enoch Pratt Free Library$1,000
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore$1,000
Maryland SPCA$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 75% of The Ochs Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 22%.

The Ochs Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +59% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gateway Maryland Inc; 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 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. 18 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesDUKE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ochs Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ochs Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home