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The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$62k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$434kHealth$324kEducation$275kPhilanthropy$237kHuman Services$197kFood & Nutrition$175kReligion$80kHousing & Shelter$44kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCDONOGH SCHOOL$25,000
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART$11,500
STAGES THEATER COMPANY$10,000
BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$5,000
ROOTS AFRICA$5,000
FUELFUND OF MARYLAND$4,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN$1,050
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST END HOSPICE: $8k → 7%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 15%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 15%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 49 repeat orgs$724k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 44 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
62

Total granted

$1.2M
$718k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+32%

Still filing today

67%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TG
    THE GIVING SQUARE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $143k · revenue +55% · 33% of their budget
  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2020–2023 · $122k · revenue +2%
  • MS
    MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    3× · 2020–2023 · $56k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BM
    BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • TF
    THE FAMILY TREE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +147%
  • FT
    FAMILY TREE - OPERATING
    one grant, 2017 · $39k
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
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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2
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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3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
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
8
University of Maryland Neurology 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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9
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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10
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
11
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gbmc Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mica 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

58 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. 58 of the 116 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
49/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $79,000 · OtherBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ANNUAL FUND: $70,000 · OtherBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ANNUAL FUNDHOUSE OF RUTH: $62,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $60,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS - CENTRAL MD: $60,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $45,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $44,000 · Other+72 more: $751,640 · Other+72 moreBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $121,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MU…BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SY…THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN…JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH MUSEU…CASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $7,550 · Arts & CultureMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $56,081 · EducationMCDONOGH …University of Chicago: $30,000 · EducationUniversit…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOP…ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $15,000 · EducationENOCH PRA…DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 · EducationDALTON SC…THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $10,000 · EducationTHE CHAPI…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $5,750 · Education+5 more: $18,500 · Education+5 moreTHE GIVING SQUARE INC: $142,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $25,000 · HealthHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT: $23,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthGBMC FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionPAUL'S PLACE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTH: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $19,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,171,640Arts & Culture$210,550Education$165,331Philanthropy$149,000Health$98,000Food & Nutrition$65,000Housing & Shelter$64,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GIVING SQUARE INC: $142,500 over 3y, 33% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $121,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $56,081 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT: $23,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEAM CENTER INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYORK STREET PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARBOR SCHOOL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE GIVING SQUARE INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
  • Who funds STAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗

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.

The Rothschild Founda…The John J Leidy Foun…T Rowe Price Program …Herbert Bearman Found…The Kahlert Foundatio…France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…Baltimore Community F…The Wolman Family Fou…The Henry and Ruth Bl…The Bunting Family Fo…T Rowe Price Foundati…
The Rothschild Foundation IncMD64.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rothschild Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation

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 Rothschild Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • York Street Project: 32% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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How do I get to The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Rothschild Charitable 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 116 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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