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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MYouth Development$660kRecreation & Sports$570kHealth$415kHuman Services$302kFood & Nutrition$269kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $477k
  • $250k+2 grants · $585k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JOHN HOPKINS MEDICINE$20,000
LIGHTHOUSE ANNAPOLIS$20,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$18,000
WALTERS ART MUSEUM$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MD$15,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EAST END HOSPICE: $4k → 7%FAMILY TREE: $25k → 10%FAMILY TREE: $50k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $5k → 10%THE LIGHT HOUSE: $20k → 14%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $2k → 17%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MD: $20k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $5k → 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%CHICK MISSION: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%CHICK MISSION: $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

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 68 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
87

Total granted

$5.2M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

56%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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

  • MS
    MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +49%
  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2017–2024 · $487k · revenue +57%
  • TG
    THE GIVING SQUARE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $196k · revenue +55% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROTHSCHILD FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M
  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +72%
  • CT
    CONTRIBUTION TO RAYMOND JAMES DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
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
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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2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
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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5
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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6
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
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
The George Washington University

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…

Education
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 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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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 Henry Street Settlement; 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.
04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
63/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROTHSCHILD FUND: $1,010,000 · OtherTHE ROTHSCHILD FUNDCENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP: $1,001,393 · OtherCENTRAL SCHOLARSHIPDO GOOD INSTITUTE (UNIV OF MD COLLEGE PARK): $500,000 · OtherDO GOOD INSTITUTE (UNIV OF MD COLLEGE PARK)UNIVERSITY OF MAYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $253,000 · OtherCONTRIBUTION TO RAYMOND JAMES DONOR ADVISED FUND: $200,000 · OtherASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES - ROTHSCHILD PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $200,000 · Other+116 more: $2,139,339 · Other+116 moreMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,046,329 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCOR…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAN…+17 more: $268,250 · Education+17 moreBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $487,230 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $32,700 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $54,645 · Arts & CultureTHE GIVING SQUARE INC: $196,236 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $27,000 · PhilanthropyNOTLEY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY TREE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE DC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc: $8,500 · Human Services+7 more: $26,969 · Human ServicesPAUL'S PLACE INC: $71,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTH: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterFUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $11,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,303,732Education$1,564,579Arts & Culture$612,075Philanthropy$280,236Human Services$170,469Food & Nutrition$146,000Housing & Shelter$81,000

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 budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,046,329 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $487,230 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GIVING SQUARE INC: $196,236 over 4y, 37% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $88,560 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $71,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $71,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $59,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $43,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $40,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC: $33,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $32,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE DC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $18,400 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOTLEY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVINC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 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 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 ↗

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 Charit…Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…Herbert Bearman Found…T Rowe Price Program …T Rowe Price Foundati…The Henry and Ruth Bl…The John J Leidy Foun…Brown Advisory Charit…The United Way of Cen…The Bunting Family Fo…Associated Jewish Cha…
The Rothschild Charitable 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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Rothschild 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 177 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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