· Public charity
Bourbon and Bowties Baltimore Inc
To make baltimore a better place to live, work & grow by bringing resources to organizations that can deliver life-changing services to those in need and to help save local environment.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE IGNITES | $62,500 |
| OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP | $45,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $45,000 |
| COOL KIDS CAMAIGN FOUNDATION INC | $45,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 47% of Bourbon and Bowties Baltimore Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 40%.
How this is measured
5 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bourbon and Bowties Baltimore Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bourbon and Bowties Baltimore Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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