· Private foundation
The Philip and Beryl Sachs Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARK SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT | $33,000 |
| WEEKEND BACKPACKS | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Philip and Beryl Sachs 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.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 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
- BCBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +289%
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +218%- SCSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $39k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- MWMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +36%
- TATHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +187%
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.
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.
Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.
To raise and manage funds and to provide financial support to the university of baltimore. the foundation provides leadership, guidance, and support to the university's administration in advancing the mission and vision of the university.
Sbcs, a title 1 school, seeks to provide each child with the tools necessary to live a fulfilling, productive life. the rigorous expeditionary learning (el) school model is engaging and student-centered. el cultivates students' love of…
The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
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…
Operates public markets as a base for neighborhood commercial revitalization.
The waldorf school of baltimore educates and inspires children to think, act, and feel with depth, imagination, and purpose.
The mission of kipp baltimore is to create and operate public schools in baltimore city that lead students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and a diversity of skill levels to attend and succeed in four-year colleges.
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts Place Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sisters Circle Inc ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hearts Place Services 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Richman Family Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · Herbert Bearman Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · 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 Philip and Beryl Sachs 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.
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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.