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The Rothschild 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $477k
- $250k+2 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCDONOGH SCHOOL | $335,000 |
| DO GOOD INSTITUTE (UNIV OF MD COLLEGE PARK) | $250,000 |
| CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP | $216,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $80,000 |
| THE GIVING SQUARE | $65,633 |
| FAMILY TREE | $65,000 |
| CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $27,000 |
| BRIDGES BALTIMORE | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $22,400 |
| LIGHTHOUSE ANNAPOLIS | $20,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $18,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MD | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MSMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED5× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +49%
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2017–2024 · $487k · revenue +57%- TGTHE GIVING SQUARE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $196k · revenue +55% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- TRTHE ROTHSCHILD FUNDone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +72%- AJASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES - ROTHSCHILD PHILANTHROPIC FUNDone grant, 2018 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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,…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 177 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
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 Rothschild 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.
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% 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
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% 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
- Special Equestrians Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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