How much did BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC grant in FY2018?

BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC reported 18 grants totaling $175,567 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

Where is BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC based?

BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC is based in MD.

BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC

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· Public charity

BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC

Promoting, preserving, and enhancing baltimore's historic and cultural legacy and natural resources for current and future generations.

$176k

Granted FY2018

Grants

Communities

$20k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2018 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k11 grants · $65k
$10k–50k7 grants · $93k

$7,875

Median grant

States reached

$595k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATOIN$20,000
FRIENDS OF GWYNNS FALLS$15,000
FRIENDS OF FORT MCHENRY$13,305
WAVERLY MAIN STREET INC$12,092
PIGTOWN MAIN STREET$11,250
JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND$11,250
CARROLL MUSEUMS INC$10,000
BALTIMORE STREETCAR MUSEUM$8,950
BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION AND THE ARTS$7,875
GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE$7,500
STAR SPANGLED BANNER FLAG HOUSE$5,625
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY$5,000
THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALT HISTORY AND ARCH$5,000
BALTIMORE CHILDRENS MUSEUM$5,000
CREATIVE ALLIANCE$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, (see sch. o) embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the…

Arts & Culture

Baltimore Heritage Incorporated

To preserve historic places in Baltimore.

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Maryland Technology Museum Inc

Arts & Culture

Baltimore County Historical Society Inc

The Historical Society of Baltimore County Collects, Preserves and Interprets the Rich History of Baltimore County for the Education and Enjoyment of Present and Future Generations.

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Maryland Art Place Inc

Maryland art place was established to develop and maintain an environment for artists to exhibit their work and facilitate exchanges between artists and the public through educational leadership.

Arts & Culture

Visit Baltimore Inc

Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.

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Maryland Lyric Opera

Arts & Culture

Maryland Conservatory of Music Inc

Music education

Arts & Culture

Maryland Opera Inc

The Mission of Maryland Opera Inc. is the promotion , production and performance in a variety of venues, of live Opera experiences to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and the creation and continuation of Opera education and outreach…

Philanthropy

Historical Society Harford Cou

Preserving the history and heritage of Harford County, Maryland

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Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Inc

To educate, move and inspire the community with world class performances.

Arts & Culture

Baltimore Clayworks Inc

Baltimore clayworks is a non-profit ceramic art center that exists to develop, sustain, and promote an artist-centered community that provides outstanding artistic, educational, and collaborative programs in ceramic arts.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B&O Railroad Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maryland Historical Society Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/51

the rest of the field

11%

623/5,485

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.

03the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/40

Grantees still filing

29/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$76,200Other$53,305Community Improvement$23,342Education$5,000

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD46.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · Baltimore Office of Promotion · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Dr Frank C Marino 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 organisation BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATOIN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521453400 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATOIN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc?

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BALTIMORE HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc?

More from the funding graph