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Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation

$9k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF GREATER BALTIMORE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maryland Tech Council$3,500
Baltimore Collegetown Network$2,500
Baltimore Sport Tourism Dev Council$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Association of University Research Parks: $5k → 15%VENTURE FOR AMERICA: $2k → 17%Maryland Tech Council: $4k → 6%TEDCO: $500 → 6%Harford Community College Foundatio: $500 → 7%BioHealth Innovation: $3k → 8%University System of Maryland Found: $3k → 11%UMBC Research Park Corporation: $5k → 11%THE MEDA FOUDATION: $15k → 19%Association of University Research Parks: $3k → 15%BioHealth Innovation: $3k → 8%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYL: $325 → 11%BETAMORE: $5k → 19%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYL: $3k → 11%RMI of Maryland: $5k → 19%CCBC Foundation: $5k → 11%RMI of Maryland: $4k → 19%BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY: $3k → 19%Betamore: $2k → 19%CYBER SECURITY ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND: $200 → 19%The Salvation Army Central Maryland: $200 → 19%Associated Black Charities: $5k → 19%Baltimore Area Council: $1k → 19%Associated Black Charities: $510 → 19%CARDINAL SHEHAN SCHOOL: $2k → 19%Visit Baltimore: $3k → 19%Baltimore Sport Tourism Dev Council: $3k → 19%Visit Baltimore: $150 → 19%Baltimore Collegetown Network: $3k → 19%Baltimore Collegetown Network: $3k → 19%LIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER: $2k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43k · 8 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$43k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+44%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +107%
  • BI
    BioHealth Innovation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +68%
  • BC
    BALTIMORE COLLEGETOWN NETWORK INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MEDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +47%
  • UR
    UMBC RESEARCH PARK CORPORATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +44%
  • CF
    CCBC Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

1
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…

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2
Baltimore Corps Inc

To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…

Employment
3
Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce

To assist the small business community through various efforts including consulting, financing, training and member networking opportunities.

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4
Blackbird Laboratories Inc

Blackbird laboratories is an independent nonprofit medical research organization based in baltimore that is focused on conducting medical and scientific research in conjunction with nonprofit hospitals and academic institutions,…

Health
5
The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors Inc

The greater baltimore board of realtors, inc. is an advocate for the business and professional interests of its members, the practice of high ethical standards in the transfer of real property, and preserving private property rights.

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6
Howard County Chamber of Commerce

To represent the business community of howard county, maryland

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7
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc

To raise and manage funds and to provide financial support to the university of baltimore. the foundation provides leadership, guidance, and support to the university's administration in advancing the mission and vision of the university.

Education
8
Maryland Center On Economic Policy Inc

The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.

Social Science
9
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
10
Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc

Biomade's mission is to enable domestic bioindustrial manufacturing at all scales, develop technologies to enhance u.s. bioindustrial competitiveness, de-risk investment in relevant infrastructure, and expand the biomanufacturing workforce…

Community Improvement
11
Baltimore Area Health Education Center

To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…

Health
12
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visit Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is BioHealth Innovation. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKS — $7,500 · OtherASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKSASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC — $5,510 · OtherASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INCUMBC RESEARCH PARK CORPORATION INC — $5,000 · OtherUMBC RESEARCH PARK CORPORATION INCCCBC Foundation — $5,000 · OtherCCBC FoundationMaryland Tech Council — $3,500 · OtherMaryland Tech CouncilJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYL — $2,825 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLVISIT BALTIMORE INC — $2,650 · OtherVISIT BALTIMORE INCUniversity System of Maryland Found — $2,500 · OtherBaltimore Sport Tourism Dev Council — $2,500 · OtherCARDINAL SHEHAN SCHOOL — $2,000 · Other+2 more — $700 · OtherTHE MEDA FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MEDA FOUNDATION INCBETAMORE INC — $6,500 · Community ImprovementBETAMORE INCVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $2,000 · Community ImprovementVENTURE FOR AMERICA INCLIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC — $1,500 · Community ImprovementLIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC+1 more — $200 · Community ImprovementBioHealth Innovation — $5,000 · HealthBALTIMORE COLLEGETOWN NETWORK INC — $5,000 · EducationBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$47,685Community Improvement$25,200Health$5,000Education$5,000Arts & Culture$2,500Youth Development$1,000Philanthropy$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MEDA FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBETAMORE INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC — $5,510 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUMBC RESEARCH PARK CORPORATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBioHealth Innovation — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE COLLEGETOWN NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVISIT BALTIMORE INC — $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE BALTIMORE HOME CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCybersecurity Association Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Morris Goldseker …France-Merrick Founda…Brown Advisory Charit…Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Program …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Umbc Research Park Corporation Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Betamore Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Visit Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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