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· Public charity

Baltimore Corps Inc

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 challenges.

$295k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$224k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$897kEmployment$483kYouth Development$144kReligion$60kCivil Rights$50kEducation$18k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $270,157, the rows itemized in this filing. The $295,132 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,975 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $224k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIRMINGHAM CORPS$224,157
THE BEORG$20,000
I AM MENTALITY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT$16,000
THE PLAYER PHILANTHROPY FUND$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MEN & FAMILIES CENTER: $56k → 19%MEN & FAMILIES CENTER: $11k → 19%YOUNG SUCCESSFUL LEADERS INC: $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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+27%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’25
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentCivil RightsOther
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

  • IA
    I AM MENTALITY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $136k · revenue +391%
  • BE
    BMORE EMPOWERED INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $51k · revenue +108%
  • YO
    YOUTH OF THE DIASPORA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • FS
    Fayette Street Outreach
    one grant, 2022 · $65k
  • FB
    FIRST BILINGUAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • PR
    PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +78%
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
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
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2
Baltimore Corps Inc

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…

Employment
3
Innovation Works Inc

The corporation will develop sustainable neighborhood economies in depressed areas by: igniting interest in sustainable social enterprise, helping individuals transform challenges into opportunities, creating sustainable social…

Community Improvement
4
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of Afl-Cio Unions

The council was organized for the purpose of providing its members with adequate representation in various union related matters.

—
5
Baltimore Development Corporation

The baltimore development corporation (bdc) is a non-profit organization that serves as the economic development agency for the city of baltimore. bdc's mission is to grow the city's economy in an inclusive, equitable manner by retaining,…

Community Improvement
6
We Our Us Unity Engagement Mens Movement

Bring together men from all faiths and walks of life who are determined to stop the violence and bring unity, peace, love, and resources to the residents of Baltimore and those connected to Baltimore.

Community Improvement
7
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
8
Bikemore Inc

To provide education and outreach to baltimore city residents about cycling and its benefits.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
10
Baltimore Unity Hall Inc
Community Improvement
11
Greenmount West Community Center Foundation Inc

The greenmount west community center foundation serves as incubator which invests and supports the greatness and talent of baltimore's youth. we do this through innovative programming that evolves with the development and the needs of our…

Youth Development
12
Baltimore Beat Inc

Baltimore beat provides thoughtful, dogged reporting with a focus on the ignored and under-represented; provides journalism and investigative reporting, writing exclusive stories on local, city and state agencies, state government, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bmore Empowered Inc; the most unlike its peers is Youth of the Diaspora. 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIRMINGHAM CORPS: $482,599 · EmploymentBIRMINGHAM CORPSFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $313,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INCFayette Street Outreach: $64,503 · Community ImprovementFayette Street OutreachNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $30,003 · Community ImprovementNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC+1 more: $7,500 · Community ImprovementI AM MENTALITY INC: $136,000 · Youth DevelopmentI AM MENTALITY…BMORE EMPOWERED INC: $50,800 · Youth DevelopmentBMORE EMPOWERE…THE BE ORG INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BE ORG INCMISSIONFIT: $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST BILINGUAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF BALTIMORE: $60,003 · OtherFIRST BILINGUAL …ELLE MENTORING: $17,500 · OtherELLE MENTORINGLIVING LIFE GRACEFULLY: $17,500 · OtherLIVING LIFE GRAC…ARABBER PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · OtherABUNDANT FAITH CHURCH INC: $10,000 · OtherPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $50,080 · OtherPUBLIC RIGHTS PR…PARK HEIGHTS COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $25,000 · OtherPARK HEIGHTS COM…YOUTH OF THE DIASPORA: $18,000 · OtherYOUTH OF THE DIA…+7 more: $37,500 · Other+7 moreCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $63,500 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $13,700 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $67,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG SUCCESSFUL LEADERS INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Employment$482,599Community Improvement$415,006Youth Development$218,300Other$245,583Philanthropy$112,200Housing & Shelter$100,000Human Services$77,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIRMINGHAM CORPS: $482,599 over 2y, 45% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $313,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetI AM MENTALITY INC: $136,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $67,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $63,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBMORE EMPOWERED INC: $50,800 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $50,080 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC: $30,003 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BE ORG INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH OF THE DIASPORA: $18,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $13,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSIONFIT: $11,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetRICH Restoring Inner City Hope Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetACTION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Annie E Casey Foundat…Fund for Educational …T Rowe Price Foundati…Baltimore Community F…Baltimore Children an…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…Robert W Deutsch Foun…Civic Works IncWest Baltimore Renais…Family League of Balt…Baltimore Civic Fund …
Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · Civic Works Inc · West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund 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 Corps Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baltimore Corps Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Parity Baltimore Incorporated: 11% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Baltimore Corps Inc?

Find your warmest path to Baltimore Corps Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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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