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Harry L Gladding Foundation Inc at a glance

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Harry L Gladding Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$400kRecreation & Sports$40kEnvironment$39kEmployment$25kEducation$18kYouth Development$3kPhilanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$656k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALTERS ART MUSEUM$20,000
MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS$7,000
CREATIVE ALLIANCE$5,000
EVERYMAN THEATRE$5,000
Arts for Learning Maryland$5,000
BMA - Baltimore Music Arts$4,000
GBCA - GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE$2,000
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,500
AEMS$1,000
PEALE CENTER$1,000
GIL SANDLER FUND$1,000
CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREA$1,000
BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MD PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $3k → 19%ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE: $20k → 19%NATIONAL AQUARIUM IN BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%CENTER STAGE: $13k → 19%CENTER STAGE: $9k → 19%PORT DISCOVERY THE CHILDRENS' MUSEUM IN BALTIMORE MD: $8k → 19%PORT DISCOVERY THE CHILDRENS' MUSEUM IN BALTIMORE MD: $6k → 19%Arts for Learning Maryland: $5k → 19%CENTER STAGE: $5k → 19%CENTER STAGE: $5k → 19%Arts for Learning Maryland: $5k → 19%Arts for Learning Maryland: $5k → 19%BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES: $8k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES: $8k → 19%BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $7k → 19%YOUNG AUDIENCES: $6k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $5k → 19%MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 19%MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 19%MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 19%MARYLAND ZOO: $5k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $5k → 19%MARYLAND ZOO: $5k → 19%BMA - Baltimore Music Arts: $4k → 19%MARYLAND ZOO: $5k → 19%BMA - Baltimore Music Arts: $3k → 19%BMA - Baltimore Music Arts: $3k → 19%MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS: $3k → 19%CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $7k → 19%CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $5k → 19%CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $5k → 19%CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $5k → 19%CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $5k → 19%WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $47k → 19%WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $40k → 19%WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $40k → 19%WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $40k → 19%WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $20k → 19%WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $20k → 19%THE ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY: $5k → 19%PARKWAY THEATRE: $5k → 19%THE ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY: $5k → 19%EVERYMAN THEATRE: $5k → 19%EVERYMAN THEATRE: $4k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$532k · 24 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
6

Total granted

$532k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+38%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RP
    ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +59%
  • NA
    NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • MN
    MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • PT
    PARKWAY THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • AE
    ARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +38%
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 Chamber Orchestra Inc

The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
4
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
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
Le Mondo

To promote theater performances in baltimore city

Arts & Culture
7
Baltimore Public Media Corporation

We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.

Arts & Culture
8
Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Foundation
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9
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
10
Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Stage Associates Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gil Sandler Fund Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $207,250 · OtherWALTERS ART MUSEUMYOUNG AUDIENCES: $21,000 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCESIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherPORT DISCOVERY THE CHILDRENS' MUSEUM IN BALTIMORE MD: $14,000 · OtherBMA - Baltimore Music Arts: $11,500 · Other+8 more: $25,980 · Other+8 moreCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $31,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES I…CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ALLIANCE INCBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $15,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ARTARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAN…EVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYMAN THEATRE INCBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHES…+5 more: $8,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $35,000 · AnimalsMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $24,500 · HealthENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE GIL SANDLER FUND INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$310,730Arts & Culture$120,000Environment$40,000Animals$35,000Health$24,500Education$10,000Youth Development$3,000Philanthropy$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 budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $24,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIL SANDLER FUND INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENMOUNT SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSingle Carrot Theatre Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GIL SANDLER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENMOUNT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Single Carrot Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗

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…Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Foundati…The Abell Foundation …The Henry and Ruth Bl…The John J Leidy Foun…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Program …The Wolman Family Fou…The William G Baker J…Dr Frank C Marino Fou…The Joseph Meyerhoff …
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc

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 Harry L Gladding Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry L Gladding Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Maryland New Directions Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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