· Public charity
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc
Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YOUNG SUCCESSFUL LEADERS INC | $250,000 |
| GLOW FORWARD FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| GLOBAL CHILDREN FINANCIAL LITERACY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| THE WYLIE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| BEYOND FEARLESS INSPIRED BY TRUTH INC | $250,000 |
| QSS BALTIMORE INC | $250,000 |
| WOMEN'S LNSITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $250,000 |
| A PROSPEROUS TOMORROW | $250,000 |
| CAPOEIRA SOCIAL PROJECT LTD | $250,000 |
| YOUTH AS RESOURCES | $225,000 |
| LOVING ARMS INC | $225,000 |
| CHRIS WILSON FOUNDATION INC | $225,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
103 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. 103 of the 126 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE BE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds Corner Team Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J WATKINS SR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING & EMBRACING CHANGE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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