· Public charity
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc
Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k73 grants · $6.9M
- $250k+12 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $623,500 |
| BALLET AFTER DARK INC | $337,200 |
| OBASI FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| A PROSPEROUS TOMORROW | $250,000 |
| QSS BALTIMORE INC | $250,000 |
| GLOBAL CHILDREN FINANCIAL LITERACY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| GLOW FORWARD FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| THE WYLIE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| YOUNG SUCCESSFUL LEADERS INC | $250,000 |
| BEYOND FEARLESS INSPIRED BY TRUTH INC | $250,000 |
| WOMEN'S LNSITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $250,000 |
| CAPOEIRA SOCIAL PROJECT LTD | $250,000 |
| LOVING ARMS INC | $225,000 |
| YOUTH AS RESOURCES | $225,000 |
| CHRIS WILSON FOUNDATION INC | $225,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 24 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- LTLETS THRIVE BALTIMORE4× · 2022–2025 · $522k · revenue +202% · 38% of their budget
- AEARTS EVERY DAY INC2× · 2022–2025 · $470k · revenue +142% · 40% of their budget
- STSuccor Transitional Program Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $418k · revenue +26% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +42%- TATHRIVE ARTSone grant, 2022 · $900k
- AEARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $866k · revenue +83%
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 mission of IBIM Girls is to empower girls to B.E.L.I.E.V.E (Become Emerging Leaders Inspiring Excellence and Values Everyday) through group mentoring and leadership training necessary to become responsible, productive and successful…
Education, mentoring, and tutoring
Mentoring Young Minds inspires, educates and empowers youth with a focus on academic, social-emotional skills and physical activites through mentoring, leadership, and life skills development, while building relationships with positive…
To inspire inner city children
Baltimore Sports Academy serves under resourced communities by providing elementary-aged youth access to summer camps, after school programs, and sports leagues to develop strong bodies, minds and spirits. We assist youth to have success…
Youth Family Development for Grades 7-12 - After School Empowerment
Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…
Mentoring and educational programs for female youth
After school enrichment program
Assist community members in capacity building, program development, fiscal sponsorship and organizational development for the general improvement in quality of life plus green space and community organiz.
Youth
Support youth through mentorship and activities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bmore Empowered Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Girls Cook. 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 8 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 126 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 FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds ARTS EVERY DAY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET AFTER DARK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Succor Transitional Program Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAM OF WE HAPPYVILLE ↗
- Who funds RISE Arts Center of Baltimore Inc ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds Moving History Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS COOK ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE ACHIEVERS ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MTM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CODY YOUNG EMPOWERMENT YOUTH CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PHASE 3 TRAINING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REQUITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Leader Breeders Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J WATKINS SR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Corner Team Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING & EMBRACING CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOARD ROOM CHESS INC ↗
- Who funds Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood Inc ↗
- Who funds Natural Born Champions Inc ↗
- Who funds Obasi Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTSMILES INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE HAPPENS INC ↗
- Who funds ELEV8BALTIMOREINC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONFIT ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE LATINA INC ↗
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: Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · France-Merrick 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 Baltimore Children and Youth Fund 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.
- Mr Mack Lewis Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Light Health and Wellness Comprehensive Services Inc — 74% of income from government
- Saint Luke's Youth Center Inc — 48% of income from government
- Central Baltimore Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
- My Covenant Place — 33% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Uplift Alliance Inc — 16% of income from government
- CityLit Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% 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.