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Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc

Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
89
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$624k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$11MYouth Development$8.9MCommunity Improvement$5.6MArts & Culture$5.0MHuman Services$3.3MRecreation & Sports$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.7MHealth$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 89 grants

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
$96,893
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 9%MY COVENANT PLACE INC: $150k → 6%BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%MY COVENANT PLACE: $50k → 6%BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION INC: $141k → 11%MY COVENANT PLACE: $13k → 6%BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 11%SISTERS IN SYNC INC: $50k → 6%BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 11%OBASI FOUNDATION INC: $300k → 11%ENDSIDE OUT INC: $150k → 11%ENDSIDEOUT INC: $55k → 11%ENDSIDEOUT INC: $50k → 11%ENDSIDEOUT INC: $13k → 11%CHRIS WILSON FOUNDATION INC: $225k → 19%YOUNG SUCCESSFUL LEADERS INC: $250k → 19%CATHERINE'S FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICE INC: $150k → 19%QSS BALTIMORE INC: $250k → 19%DAYSPRING INC: $150k → 19%DAYSPRING INC: $116k → 19%ACTIVE ACHIEVERS INCORPORATED: $150k → 19%DAYSPRING INC: $50k → 19%ACTIVE ACHIEVERS INC: $145k → 19%ACTIVE ACHIEVERS INC: $50k → 19%BALTIMORE FAMILY ALLIANCE: $100k → 19%DAYSPRING INC: $13k → 19%ACTIVE ACHIEVERS INC: $13k → 19%FOR MY KIDZ INC: $250k → 19%LOVING ARMS INC: $225k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $199k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $150k → 19%LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $150k → 19%RICH FOUNDATION REACHING INNOCENT CHILDREN HEARTS: $100k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $100k → 19%LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $55k → 19%LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $50k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $50k → 19%WISDOM PROJECTS INC: $75k → 19%LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $13k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $13k → 19%NO STRUGGLE NO SUCCESS INC: $25k → 19%NO STRUGGLE NO SUCCESS INC: $20k → 19%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE: $10k → 19%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 83 repeat orgs$9.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
18

Total granted

$34M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+5%

Still filing today

87%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LT
    LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $522k · revenue +202% · 38% of their budget
  • AE
    ARTS EVERY DAY INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $470k · revenue +142% · 40% of their budget
  • ST
    Succor Transitional Program Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $418k · revenue +26% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

  • NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +42%
  • TA
    THRIVE ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $900k
  • AE
    ARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one 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.

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
I Believe in Me Girls Inc

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…

Youth Development
2
Beta Alpha Lambda Inc

Education, mentoring, and tutoring

Education
3
Mentoring Young Minds

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…

Youth Development
4
Black Girls Rock Inc

To inspire inner city children

Human Services
5
Baltimore Sports Academy Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
6
D E S T I N E D to Succeed Inc

Youth Family Development for Grades 7-12 - After School Empowerment

Youth Development
7
Hope Ignites Baltimore Inc

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…

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8
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
9
Teens Step Up Inc

After school enrichment program

Youth Development
10
Grow Home Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Urban Youth Ministry of Greater Indianapolis Inc

Youth

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12
The Movement Team

Support youth through mentorship and activities

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bmore Empowered Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

57
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
66/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $8,686,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLEN…ARTS EVERY DAY INC: $470,000 · Education+8 more: $2,217,421 · Education+8 moreTHRIVE ARTS: $900,000 · OtherTHRIVE ARTSSuccor Transitional Program Inc: $417,500 · OtherBALLET AFTER DARK INCORPORATED: $437,200 · OtherBLACK GIRLS COOK: $359,000 · OtherCODY YOUNG EMPOWERMENT YOUTH CHARITIES INC: $347,500 · Other+40 more: $7,779,852 · Other+40 moreTEAM OF WE HAPPYVILLE: $393,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM OF WE HAPPYV…MTM FOUNDATION INC: $347,500 · Youth DevelopmentLeader Breeders Inc: $319,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BE ORG INC: $317,500 · Youth DevelopmentSAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC: $317,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOARD ROOM CHESS INC: $309,393 · Youth DevelopmentMentoring Male Teens in the Hood Inc: $307,500 · Youth DevelopmentNatural Born Champions Inc: $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEARTSMILES INC: $295,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONFIT: $290,779 · Youth DevelopmentCoach G Academy Inc: $275,405 · Youth DevelopmentIMAGINE ME MINISTRIES INC: $267,500 · Youth DevelopmentONE MORE ONE LESS MENTORING INC: $267,500 · Youth DevelopmentEXCELLENCE & AMBITIONS INC: $267,500 · Youth DevelopmentBMORE EMPOWERED INC: $267,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AGOGE PROJECT: $267,500 · Youth DevelopmentB-360 Baltimore Inc: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentTASTE WISE KIDS INC: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentAZIZA PE&CE: $249,158 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TENDER BRIDGE INC: $225,125 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH AS RESOURCES INC: $225,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $664,498 · Youth Development+4 moreFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,750,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERS…NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARIES C…REQUITY FOUNDATION INC: $332,886 · Community ImprovementREQUITY FOUNDAT…YOUNG BLACK SCHOLAR INSTITUTE: $250,000 · Community ImprovementTENDEA FAMILY INC: $225,000 · Community ImprovementEAST BALTIMORE HISTORICAL LIBRARY I: $212,500 · Community ImprovementRICH Restoring Inner City Hope Inc: $205,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $369,062 · Community Improvement+3 moreLETS THRIVE BALTIMORE: $521,575 · Human ServicesLETS THRIVE…ACTIVE ACHIEVERS: $357,500 · Human ServicesACTIVE ACHI…BEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION: $353,440 · Human ServicesBEYOND THE …Dayspring Inc: $328,100 · Human ServicesDayspring I…Obasi Foundation Inc: $300,000 · Human ServicesObasi Found…LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $267,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT HEALT…ENDSIDEOUT INC: $267,500 · Human ServicesENDSIDEOUT …YOUNG SUCCESSFUL LEADERS INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG SUCCE…For My Kidz Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesFor My Kidz…QSS BALTIMORE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesQSS BALTIMO…LOVING ARMS INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesCHRIS WILSON FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Human ServicesMy Covenant Place: $212,500 · Human ServicesCatherines Family and Youth Services: $150,000 · Human Services+5 more: $370,000 · Human Services+5 moreARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC: $866,250 · Arts & CultureARTS EDUC…RISE Arts Center of Baltimore Inc: $385,500 · Arts & CultureRISE Arts…Moving History Inc: $367,500 · Arts & CultureMoving Hi…SANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC: $330,418 · Arts & CultureSANKOFA C…MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION: $317,500 · Arts & CultureMARCHING …ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc: $295,238 · Arts & CultureISLAMIC L…DANCE HAPPENS INC: $292,500 · Arts & CultureDANCE HAP…Focus on Children United for Success: $212,500 · Arts & CultureFocus on …The Arts Project Inc: $194,520 · Arts & CultureMUSE 360 INCORPORATED: $182,000 · Arts & CultureNUESTRAS RAICES INC: $174,650 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBaltimore Urban Baseball Association Inc: $270,000 · Recreation & SportsBEYOND FEARLESS INSPIRED BY TRUTH INC: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsMR MACK LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $212,500 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $120,000 · Recreation & SportsUMAR BOXING PROGRAM INC: $75,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$11,373,421Other$10,241,052Youth Development$6,678,858Community Improvement$5,844,448Human Services$4,328,115Arts & Culture$3,668,576Recreation & Sports$927,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $8,686,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,750,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetLETS THRIVE BALTIMORE: $521,575 over 4y, 38% of budgetARTS EVERY DAY INC: $470,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetSuccor Transitional Program Inc: $417,500 over 4y, 65% of budgetTEAM OF WE HAPPYVILLE: $393,000 over 3y, 91% of budgetRISE Arts Center of Baltimore Inc: $385,500 over 3y, 61% of budgetMoving History Inc: $367,500 over 3y, 83% of budgetBLACK GIRLS COOK: $359,000 over 3y, 79% of budgetACTIVE ACHIEVERS: $357,500 over 3y, 94% of budgetBEYOND THE NATURAL FOUNDATION: $353,440 over 3y, 46% of budgetMTM FOUNDATION INC: $347,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetCODY YOUNG EMPOWERMENT YOUTH CHARITIES INC: $347,500 over 3y, 65% of budgetPHASE 3 TRAINING CORPORATION: $342,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetREQUITY FOUNDATION INC: $332,886 over 3y, 65% of budgetSANKOFA CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURES INC: $330,418 over 3y, 62% of budgetDayspring Inc: $328,100 over 3y, 76% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $322,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLeader Breeders Inc: $319,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE BE ORG INC: $317,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetCorner Team Inc: $317,500 over 3y, 88% of budgetMARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION: $317,500 over 3y, 63% of budgetSAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC: $317,500 over 3y, 54% of budgetWILLIAM J WATKINS SR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $317,500 over 3y, 65% of budgetCULTIVATING & EMBRACING CHANGE INC: $317,500 over 3y, 43% of budgetBOARD ROOM CHESS INC: $309,393 over 3y, 54% of budgetMentoring Male Teens in the Hood Inc: $307,500 over 3y, 46% of budgetNatural Born Champions Inc: $305,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetISLAMIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Inc: $295,238 over 3y, 52% of budgetHEARTSMILES INC: $295,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetDANCE HAPPENS INC: $292,500 over 3y, 51% of budgetELEV8BALTIMOREINC: $291,921 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMISSIONFIT: $290,779 over 3y, 78% of budgetADELANTE LATINA INC: $285,500 over 3y, 38% of budgetCoach G Academy Inc: $275,405 over 3y, 26% of budgetBaltimore Urban Baseball Association Inc: $270,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetLIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $267,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetCommunity Law in Action Inc: $267,500 over 3y, 58% of budgetBALTIMORE UNDER GROUND SCIENCE SPACE Inc: $267,500 over 3y, 32% of budgetIMAGINE ME MINISTRIES INC: $267,500 over 3y, 91% of budgetONE MORE ONE LESS MENTORING INC: $267,500 over 3y, 79% of budgetEXCELLENCE & AMBITIONS INC: $267,500 over 3y, 94% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $267,500 over 3y, 87% of budgetBMORE EMPOWERED INC: $267,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetENDSIDEOUT INC: $267,500 over 3y, 66% of budgetUEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $267,500 over 3y, 26% of budgetYOUTH OF THE DIASPORA: $267,500 over 3y, 41% of budgetTHE AGOGE PROJECT: $267,500 over 3y, 27% 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.

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.

Fund for Educational Excellence IncMD95× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 510%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
51get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 126 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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