How much did BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION grant in FY2023?

BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION reported 13 grants totaling $491,692 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION based?

BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION is based in MD.

BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION

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· Public charity

BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION

The BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION & the arts (bopa) was created in 2002 with a mission to make baltimore a more vibrant and creative city.

$492k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$39k

Largest

01What you fund

0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Arts & Culture$580kCommunity Improvement$255kEducation$49kHealth$19kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$14kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$346k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

mecuussfestivaltransformative artart prizegallery awardhistoric

2020

theatreimpacteverymandedicatedbuild

2021

fall thrivepealecorporationartisticstoriesmusicalartist residence

2022

fall actionaction educationsectortheatreformimpactthrive

2023

activities blackblack brownsomatic interventionsafroentertainmentaction education

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k11 grants · $81k
$10k–50k2 grants · $57k

$7,400

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT INC$39,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC$18,000
MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK$9,800
FRACTURED ATLAS$9,500
BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT$9,000
SINGLE CARROT THEATRE$8,200
CITYLIT PROJECT INC$7,400
ARTS EVERY DAY INC$7,000
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA$7,000
MUSE 360 INC$6,600
MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC$5,600
AFRO CHARITIES INC$5,600
BALLET AFTER DARK INC$5,600

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 (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 27 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+29%

Still filing today

96%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

FP
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $180k · revenue +175%
YA
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $89k · revenue +280%
PA
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT INC
2× · 2021–2023 · $74k · revenue +1266%

Funded once

NU
NATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS
one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -62%
GM
GALERIE MYRTIS
one grant, 2022 · $32k
CF
COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +75%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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 Office of Promotion

The baltimore office of promotion & the arts (bopa) was created in 2002 with a mission to make baltimore a more vibrant and creative city. bopa serves as baltimore city's designated arts council and film office and coordinates a wide…

Arts & Culture

B'more Artists Guild Inc

To build an inclusive community by connecting diverse groups of artists and residents of baltimore county and beyond.

Arts & Culture

Baltimore Concert Opera Inc

Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…

Arts & Culture

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

District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture

Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…

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

Maryland Lyric Opera

Arts & Culture

Baltimore Festival of the Arts Inc

To produce multi-day festivals designed to promote access, appreciation and participation in the performing and visual arts.

Arts & Culture

Baltimore Improv Group

Baltimore Improv Group is a group dedicated to advancing inprovisational theatre in the Baltimore area through an active program of performance, instruction, and outreach.

Arts & Culture

Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia

Cultural Development Corporation (CuDC) creates opportunities for artists and arts organizations that stimulate economic development and improve the quality of the DC area.

Arts & Culture

Maryland Citizens for the Arts Inc

MCA works to increase public recognition and support of the arts and the role they play in the education of our children and the quality of life and economic vitality of Maryland.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 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 1% 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%1/54

the rest of the field

11%

623/5,482

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.

05the grantee network

50 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)

48/50

Grantees still filing

37/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$580,183Other$346,460Community Improvement$254,935Education$49,100Health$19,200Youth Development$15,480Housing & Shelter$14,000Food & Nutrition$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 IncMD70× affinity34 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 · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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 OFFICE OF PROMOTION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

05Through 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: GREATER REMINGTON IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272246764 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 GREATER REMINGTON IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% 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 Office of Promotion?

Find your warmest path to Baltimore Office of Promotion 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 OFFICE OF PROMOTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baltimore Office of Promotion?

More from the funding graph

BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PROMOTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baltimore Office of Promotion?

More from the funding graph