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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0161% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$736kCrime & Legal$417kInternational$181kHealth$171kReligion$5kPhilanthropy$3kPublic Benefit$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$974k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your 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

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.

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you 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 & LegalInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • 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

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 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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr16%13%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr16%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%22%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr16%46%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
4,257/31,696

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 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 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 budgetOPERATION BENJAMIN INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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 Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman 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 · 60%2%6%14%25%your 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

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Phyllis L & Leonard J Attman Foundation Inc?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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