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Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation

$9k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Community Improvement$33kScience & Tech$20kEducation$10kHealth$8kCivil Rights$6kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%The Salvation Army Central Maryland: $200 → 19%CYBER SECURITY ASSOCIATION OF 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
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visit Baltimore Inc; 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 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. 14 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBioHealth Innovation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUMBC RESEARCH PARK CORPORATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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

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 Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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.

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