· Private foundation
The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $636k
- $250k+2 grants · $738k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $380,309 |
| GREATER BALTIMORE CULTUAL ALLIANCE | $357,541 |
| YOUR PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION | $42,500 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $40,000 |
| CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC | $35,000 |
| THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HDIS | $35,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART INC | $35,000 |
| MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS INC | $30,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE | $30,000 |
| FELLS POINT CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC | $30,000 |
| MARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE | $25,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GBGREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +3% · 43% of their budget
- CACREATIVE ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $259k · revenue +19%
- ETEVERYMAN THEATRE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- TPTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +686% · 26% of their budget
- SNSTATION NORTH ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INCone grant, 2017 · $30k
- BSBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
To build an inclusive community by connecting diverse groups of artists and residents of baltimore county and beyond.
To promote the interest in and enjoyment of dance arts by providing dancers an opportunity to study and perform; by providing choreographers an outlet for creative expression and training; by providing quality entertainment and education…
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…
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
Blackrock center for the arts is a cultural cornerstone and the leading venue for the performing and visual arts in upper montgomery county, maryland. the center provides the community with diverse performing arts programs, free gallery…
To produce multi-day festivals designed to promote access, appreciation and participation in the performing and visual arts.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
The preservation and operation of the Lyric as a historic monument and for the advancement of the performing arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everyman Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Lafayette. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 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. 74 of the 92 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRODUCERS CLUB OF MD INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SPIN OFF PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUDREY HERMAN SPOTLIGHTERS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Bach Concert Series Inc ↗
- Who funds Single Carrot Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONCERTS AT SECOND INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds ArtsCentric Inc ↗
- Who funds LE MONDO ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ART PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Inc · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
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 The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund 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.
- Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Baltimore Heritage Incorporated — 63% of income from government
- Maryland Humanities Council Inc — 60% of income from government
- Pikesville Armory Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company — 16% of income from government
- Healthy Neighborhoods Inc — 16% of income from government
- CityLit Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Concerts at Second Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shriver Hall Concert Series Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
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.