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The Sally S & Decatur H Miller Private Foundation C/O Gordon Feinblatt LLC
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE | $35,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW | $10,000 |
| LEGAL AID BUREAU | $10,000 |
| THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS LYME DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| UMBC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- EPENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +37%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +82%
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +195%
- TPTHE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +46%
- BSBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $1k
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 cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
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…
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.
Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.
Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.
Strengthening baltimore's communities through education, skills development and community service.
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 Everyman Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Theatre Project. 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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 43 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 FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAKE ROLAND NATURE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Campbell Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Number Ten 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 Sally S & Decatur H Miller Private Foundation C/O Gordon Feinblatt LLC 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.
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 40% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% 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
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland 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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