Maryland · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE
ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE (Maryland) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,860,252 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,262,424). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$296M
Recipients
1,235
Contributions on record
$30M
Donors on record
45
Payments out run 9.8x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Incshared funders
- Louise D & Morton J Macks Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $337k → $556k.
13 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Wolasky Family Foundation Inc); $5.0M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Harry Weinberg Family Foundation Inc); $3.2M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
56% of ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.2M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 32 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Louise D & Morton J Macks Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harvey M & Lyn P Meyerhoff Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack & Phyllis Finkelstein Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Applebaum Family Support Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jewish Federations of North America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Jewish Fund and Council St Paul Jewish Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lockhart Vaughan Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Sherman Family Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Incshared fundersMD · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- T Rowe Price Foundationshared funderslocalMD · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 280 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 46 related entities
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc · exempt
- Bancroft Foundation Inc · exempt
- Bavar Family Foundation Inc · exempt
- Brenda Brown Lipitz Rever Family Foundation Inc · exempt
- Bunny and Alan Bernstein Family Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE?
- ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE (Maryland) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,860,252 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,262,424). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $11,860,252 in grants to ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,262,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing