Maryland · Public charity
Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc
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 variety of arts programming for the benefit of all people in baltimore. Bopa is responsible for producing…
- $537k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $232k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $58,459
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $174k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $138k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $189k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $251k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $167k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $315k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $224k | 16% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $721k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Festival of the Arts Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Fusion Partnership Inc | $235,215 | 8 | 1% |
| Arts for Learning Maryland Inc | $115,400 | 5 | 1% |
| CityLit Project Inc | $79,900 | 8 | 14% |
| Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District | $74,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Arts Every Day Inc | $65,100 | 6 | 3% |
| Strong City Baltimore Inc | $64,280 | 4 | 0% |
| Wide Angle Youth Media Inc | $63,600 | 8 | 1% |
| Muse 360 Incorporated | $55,800 | 6 | 7% |
| Maryland Lawyers for the Arts Inc | $52,800 | 8 | 7% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc
- How much does Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc give?
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $232,249, out of $537,411 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (79%), Community Improvement (13%), Education (3%).
- Who are Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Baltimore Festival of the Arts Inc ($400k), Fusion Partnership Inc ($235k), Arts for Learning Maryland Inc ($115k).
- Does Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Foundation.
- Where is Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc based?
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc is based in MD.
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