· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $157,847 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $175,567 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,720 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k11 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| POE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE WALTERS ART GALLERY | $5,000 |
| BALTIMORE CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
To preserve historic places in Baltimore.
To build an inclusive community by connecting diverse groups of artists and residents of baltimore county and beyond.
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.
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.
The mission of maryland opera, inc is (1) the promotion, production and performance in a variety of venues, of live opera experiences to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, (11) the creation and continuation of opera education and…
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
Promote, advance and stimulate civic, business, commercial and residential interests and general welfare in and around the charles street corridor of baltimore city and adjoining areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Herring Run Parks 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.
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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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.
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 BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PIGTOWN MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARROLL MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Patterson Park Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE STEETCAR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION AND THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Women's Heritage Center & Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER FLAG HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds STATION NORTH ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POE BALTIMORE INC co Hurst R Hessey ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY 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: T Rowe Price Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation
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 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.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Baltimore Architecture Foundation Inc — 17% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% 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.