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The Richman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$1.2MReligion$458kHealth$414kPhilanthropy$185kArts & Culture$166kHuman Services$145kCrime & Legal$95kCommunity Improvement$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SQUASHWISE$25,000
THE FAMILY TREE$25,000
PARKS AND PEOPLE FOUNDATION$22,500
BRIGID ALLIANCE$7,500
MOUNT ST JOSEPH$7,500
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$7,500
FLIGHT PATH - SPARK OF SCIENCE$5,250
SMITHSONIAN NMAAHC$5,000
OLDFIELDS SCHOOL$5,000
CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES$5,000
MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK$3,000
EDUCARE DC$2,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ZERO TO THREE: $3k → 14%MD FAMILY NETWORK: $20k → 19%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $8k → 17%ZERO TO THREE: $3k → 14%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%EDUCARE DC: $3k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $3k → 14%ROBERTA'S HOUSE: $25k → 19%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
NE
VA
MD
DC

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
39

Total granted

$1.0M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+4%

Still filing today

86%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +37%
  • ROCA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $80k · revenue +72%
  • NS
    NATURE SACRED
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +944%

Funded once

  • MH
    Mercy Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +34%
  • UF
    UMD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -33%

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
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
2
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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3
University of Maryland Family Medicine 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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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 Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
6
University of Maryland Eye 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
7
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
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
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
10
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
11
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
12
University of Maryland Dermatologists 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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr18%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr18%44%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
12%
3,809/30,832

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

40 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. 40 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT ST JOSEPH — $415,000 · OtherMOUNT ST JOSEPHUMD FOUNDATION — $300,000 · OtherUMD FOUNDATIONTHE LOYOLA SCHOOL INC — $196,667 · OtherTHE LOYOLA SCHOOL INCTHE ASSOCIATED — $130,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATEDDREAM BIG — $75,000 · OtherSQUASHWISE — $55,000 · Other+25 more — $378,750 · Other+25 moreFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN — $200,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMOR…THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $156,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMOR…FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $122,700 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELL…SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · EducationSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION …THE LITERACY LAB — $50,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LABUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medi…INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC — $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $30,743 · Education+4 more — $37,500 · EducationMercy Health Foundation — $300,000 · HealthMercy Heal…+1 more — $2,500 · HealthTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC — $50,838 · PhilanthropyNATURE SACRED — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSHAREBABY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC — $10,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureROCA INC — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentAsylee Women Enterprise Inc — $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $33,000 · International
Other$1,550,417Education$756,943Health$302,500Philanthropy$200,838Arts & Culture$185,500Youth Development$80,000International$68,000

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 budgetMercy Health Foundation — $300,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN — $200,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $156,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $122,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $110,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCA INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC — $50,838 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATURE SACRED — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAsylee Women Enterprise Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK — $34,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $30,743 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBERTA'S HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHAREBABY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $17,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOur Zero Waste Future Incorporated — $15,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetPRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VILLAGE LEARNING PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCARE DC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAVORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMS BALTIMORE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …Richman Family Founda…Associated Jewish Cha…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Morris Goldseker …T Rowe Price Program …Sherman Family Founda…David & Barbara B Hir…The United Way of Cen…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD52.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Richman Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland 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 Richman 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 · 130%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore — 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
7report 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

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Richman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Richman 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 58 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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