· Private foundation
The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HDIS | $35,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART INC | $35,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC | $35,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE | $30,000 |
| FELLS POINT CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC | $30,000 |
| MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS INC | $30,000 |
| MARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE | $25,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
- 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 MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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