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The Philip and Beryl Sachs Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$478kPhilanthropy$75kReligion$58kYouth Development$45kCommunity Improvement$41kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$5kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
$33,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$595k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARK SCHOOL$40,000
BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT$33,000
WEEKEND BACKPACKS$10,000
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE HISPANIC FEDERATION: $3k → 17%PARK SCHOOL: $40k → 11%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%PARK SCHOOL: $40k → 11%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%PARK SCHOOL: $40k → 11%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 19%PARK SCHOOL: $40k → 11%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $8k → 19%PARK SCHOOL: $40k → 11%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $4k → 19%HAR SINAI OHEB SHALOM: $17k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $33k → 19%HAR SINAI OHEB SHALOM: $17k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $25k → 19%HAR SINAI OHEB SHALOM: $17k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $23k → 19%HAR SINAI OHEB SHALOM: $8k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $20k → 19%MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $20k → 19%MY SISTER'S CIRCLE: $15k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $20k → 19%MY SISTER'S CIRCLE: $15k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $20k → 19%MY SISTER'S CIRCLE: $8k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $19k → 19%MY SISTER'S CIRCLE: $8k → 11%BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT: $15k → 19%STRONG CITY BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%STRONG CITY BALTIMORE: $8k → 19%STRONG CITY BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%STRONG CITY BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%STRONG CITY BALTIMORE: $3k → 19%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%STRONG CITY BALTIMORE: $3k → 19%BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%STRONG CITY BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $30k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $10k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $5k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $5k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $5k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $5k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $3k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $3k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $3k → 19%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $3k → 19%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 5% of The Philip and Beryl Sachs Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Philip and Beryl Sachs 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$644k · 7 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$644k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+187%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BC
    BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +289%
  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +218%
  • SC
    STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $39k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • MW
    Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +36%
  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +187%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION
    one grant, 2017 · $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
Baltimore Public Media Corporation

We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.

Arts & Culture
2
Baltimore Montessori Inc

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.

Education
3
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
4
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc

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.

Education
5
Southwest Baltimore Charter School Inc

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…

Education
6
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

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7
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
Baltimore Corps Inc

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…

Employment
9
Baltimore Public Markets Corporation

Operates public markets as a base for neighborhood commercial revitalization.

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10
The Waldorf School of Baltimore Inc

The waldorf school of baltimore educates and inspires children to think, act, and feel with depth, imagination, and purpose.

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11
Kipp Baltimore Inc

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.

Education
12
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $200,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INCBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC: $194,500 · EducationBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INCFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $83,750 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INCHAR SINAI - OHEB SHALOM CONGREGATION INC: $57,500 · OtherHAR SINAI - OHE…STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $38,500 · OtherSTRONG CITY BAL…+1 more: $2,500 · OtherBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $72,500 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE C…Sisters Circle Inc: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $5,000 · HealthHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementHearts Place Services Inc: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$478,250Other$98,500Philanthropy$72,500Youth Development$45,000Human Services$25,000Health$5,000Community Improvement$2,500Housing & Shelter$1,000

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 budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC: $194,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $83,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $72,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSisters Circle Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $38,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHearts Place Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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…The Morris Goldseker …Fund for Educational …Associated Jewish Cha…Annie E Casey Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …Richman Family Founda…Sherman Family Founda…Herbert Bearman Found…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…National Philanthropi…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Philip and Beryl Sachs Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Philip and Beryl Sachs 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 1%
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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