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The Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman 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.

$549k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$787kReligion$421kCrime & Legal$417kHealth$356kPhilanthropy$188kInternational$181kArts & Culture$101kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $467k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UMB FOUNDATION$135,000
ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$132,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINE$100,000
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES$50,200
LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH$50,000
SANZ MEDICAL CENTER$20,800
BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLS$18,000
ST TIMOTHY SCHOOL$10,000
BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION$10,000
JCC OF GREATER BALTIMORE$10,000
ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY$5,000
JEMICY SCHOOL$2,500
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$1,800
MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL$1,800
BOYS LATIN SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ELLIS ISLAND HONOR SOCIETY: $100k → 6%ALPHA EPSILON FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ZIONIST RABBINIC COALITION: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 11%GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE: $5k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $50k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $60k → 6%ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $132k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 11%ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $142k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $50k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $60k → 6%BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION: $30k → 11%ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $142k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $50k → 19%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $60k → 6%BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION: $18k → 11%TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE: $100k → 11%SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE: $8k → 19%BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION: $10k → 11%TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE: $50k → 11%TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE: $50k → 11%BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLS: $18k → 11%BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLS: $18k → 11%BOYS LATIN SCHOOL: $20k → 19%BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLS: $18k → 11%BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLS: $18k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINE: $300k → 19%BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLS: $18k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINE: $100k → 19%ST TIMOTHY SCHOOL: $5k → 19%JEMICY SCHOOL: $88k → 11%JEMICY SCHOOL: $80k → 11%THE UMB FOUNDATION: $135k → 19%JEMICY SCHOOL: $80k → 11%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES: $93k → 19%JCC OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $28k → 11%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES: $50k → 19%JCC OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $10k → 11%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES: $47k → 19%JCC OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $10k → 11%THE ASSOCIATED: $37k → 19%JCC OF GREATER BALTIMORE: $10k → 11%ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY: $5k → 19%TORAH INSTITUTE OF BALTIMORE: $7k → 11%ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY: $5k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%ST TIMOTHY SCHOOL: $10k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 16 repeat orgs$369k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$1.9M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • EM
    ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $417k · revenue +16%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +4%
  • TJ
    THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • EI
    ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -67%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATED
    one grant, 2020 · $37k
  • BT
    BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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 Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
2
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
9
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sister States of Maryland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 39 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INC: $200,000 · OtherTALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE INCTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES: $190,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIESTHE UMB FOUNDATION: $135,000 · OtherTHE UMB FOUNDATIONELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · OtherELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INCBETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLS: $90,000 · OtherBETH TFILOH CONGREGATION & SCHOOLSJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC: $58,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INCSANZ MEDICAL CENTER: $40,600 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED: $36,600 · Other+15 more: $126,970 · Other+15 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $250,000 · EducationTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PA…+2 more: $36,000 · EducationERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $416,560 · Crime & LegalERIN MICHELE LEVIT…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $180,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $152,500 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $8,250 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $6,520 · Health+2 more: $3,800 · HealthZionist Rabbinic Coalition Inc: $5,000 · ReligionBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,800 · PhilanthropyKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$977,170Education$736,000Crime & Legal$416,560International$181,000Health$171,070Religion$5,000Philanthropy$2,800

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 budgetERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $416,560 over 3y, 23% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $152,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE INC: $58,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $8,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $6,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZionist Rabbinic Coalition Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BENJAMIN INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Crane Family Foundati…Associated Jewish Cha…Herman & Walter Samue…The Joseph Meyerhoff …The Hackerman Foundat…France-Merrick Founda…The Associated Jewish…Herbert Bearman Found…T Rowe Price Program …The Harry and Jeanett…Jewish Communal FundSandra and Malcolm Be…
Crane Family Foundation IncMD22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crane Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Sister States of Maryland Inc: 92% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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