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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.

$537k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$286kEducation$60kCrime & Legal$53kYouth Development$24kHousing & Shelter$14kRecreation & Sports$12kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $232,249, the rows itemized in this filing. The $537,411 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $305,162 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$8,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$58,459
THE CENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC$21,500
FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC$19,400
EMPACT ART INC$19,000
ARTS EVERY DAY INC$16,000
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA$10,000
LEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC$9,000
BALTIMORE CHILDRENS CHOIR INC$9,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$8,400
MUSE 360 INC$8,200
MAKE STUDIO ART PROGRAM INC$8,000
CITYLIT PROJECT INC$7,800
BRISTOL PLAYERS INC$7,600
COLUMBIA COMMUNITY CARE INC$6,690
MAGICAL EXPERIENCES ART COMPANY LTD$6,000
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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%COLUMBIA COMMUNITY CARE INC: $7k → 6%ART WITH A HEART INC: $6k → 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 30 repeat orgs$796k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
32

Total granted

$1.4M
$715k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+29%

Still filing today

97%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $115k · revenue +375%
  • CP
    CityLit Project Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +187%
  • PA
    PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT
    2× · 2021–2023 · $74k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • BF
    BALTIMORE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -79%
  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -69%
  • GM
    GALERIE MYRTIS
    one grant, 2022 · $32k
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
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…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
8
Media Rhythm Institute Studios Inc

Our vision is to create a diverse and inclusive arts ecosystem where every artist, regardless of status, identity, or background, has the opportunity to achieve potential, flourish as a creative professional, and thrive in communities…

Arts & Culture
9
Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment Inc

The Bromo Arts District was established in 2012 to encourage and support a thriving downtown arts neighborhood in Baltimore City.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc

Founded in 2001, gbca is a leading nonprofit provider of services to artists and cultural organizations in the region. (see schedule o)

Arts & Culture
12
Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring

To provide innovative management of the silver spring black box theatre to both resident companies and other artists and organizations as the rental calendar allows

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Art Inc; the most unlike its peers is Columbia Community Care. 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

65 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. 65 of the 71 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
45/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INCARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $115,400 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INCPENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT: $74,000 · Arts & CulturePENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC: $63,600 · Arts & CultureWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INCMUSE 360 INCORPORATED: $55,800 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $47,600 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $40,600 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $386,143 · Arts & Culture+25 moreCityLit Project Inc: $79,900 · OtherCityLit Project IncSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $64,280 · OtherSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INCMARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $52,800 · OtherMARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE A…NATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INC: $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INCCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $34,000 · OtherCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATIONGALERIE MYRTIS: $31,590 · OtherGALERIE MYRTISBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $28,200 · OtherBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE A…MURAL MASTERS INC: $27,344 · OtherFEDERAL HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 · OtherSingle Carrot Theatre Inc: $19,800 · OtherEMPACT ART INC: $19,000 · Other+15 more: $109,676 · Other+15 moreFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $235,215 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSH…NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD DES…CENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC: $21,500 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL BALTIMOR…GREATER REMINGTON IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $13,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $22,000 · Community Improvement+3 moreARTS EVERY DAY INC: $65,100 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,258 · EducationBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $58,459 · PhilanthropyINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $19,200 · HealthBALLET AFTER DARK INCORPORATED: $5,600 · HealthLEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC: $24,480 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$1,183,143Other$524,090Community Improvement$331,715Education$91,358Philanthropy$58,459Health$24,800Youth Development$24,480

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC: $400,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $235,215 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $115,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCityLit Project Inc: $79,900 over 8y, 14% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA AVENUE BLACK ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT: $74,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetARTS EVERY DAY INC: $65,100 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $64,280 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC: $63,600 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $58,459 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSE 360 INCORPORATED: $55,800 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetMARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $52,800 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $47,600 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $40,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE STUDIO ART PROGRAM INC: $34,683 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $34,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT: $33,800 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $33,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $29,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE & CULTURAL CENTER: $28,950 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $28,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK CHERRY INC: $25,505 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERS OF TOMORROW YOUTH CENTER INC: $24,480 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC: $21,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSingle Carrot Theatre Inc: $19,800 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $19,200 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMPACT ART INC: $19,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaryland Humanities Council Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER REMINGTON IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $13,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBALTIMORE ROCK OPERA SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBALTIMORE ARTS REALTY CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $9,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CHILDRENS CHOIR INC: $9,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLE MONDO: $8,200 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $7,755 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFEDERAL HILL MAIN STREET INC: $7,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $6,736 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia Community Care: $6,690 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAGICAL EXPERIENCES ARTS COMPANY: $6,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetFULL CIRCLE DANCE COMPANY: $6,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNUESTRAS RAICES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Foundati…The William G Baker J…The United Way of Cen…The Abell Foundation …Robert W Deutsch Foun…Annie E Casey Foundat…The John J Leidy Foun…The Jacob and Hilda B…The Morris Goldseker …The Bunting Family Fo…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD68.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation: 77% of income from government
  • Reservoir Hill Improvement Council Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Baltimore Heritage Incorporated: 63% of income from government
  • Maryland Humanities Council Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Central Baltimore Partnership Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Greater Remington Improvement Association: 43% of income from government
  • Federal Hill Main Street Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
  • Magical Experiences Arts Company: 16% of income from government
  • CityLit Project Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Design Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Episcopal Housing Corporation: 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
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp: 6% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Columbia Community Care: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Clayworks Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Make Studio Art Program Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Arts Every Day Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Hippodrome Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Access Art Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wide Angle Youth Media Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Baltimore Festival of the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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