· Public charity
Visit Baltimore Inc
Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $602k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE HOTEL CORPORATION DBA HILTON BALTIMORE INNER HARBOR | $242,595 |
| INNER HARBOR EAST HOTEL II OPERATOR LLC BALTIMORE MARRIOTT WATERFRONT | $241,634 |
| BALTIMORE HOTEL XLV OWNER LLC (RENAISSANCE BALTIMORE) | $199,332 |
| BALTIMORE MARRIOTT INNER HARBOR CAMDEN YDS | $167,926 |
| SCMD TOWER 2 LLC DBA CROWNE PLAZA BALTIMORE | $116,010 |
| HARBOR EAST PARCEL B-HOTEL LLC HILTON GARDEN INN BALTIMORE INNER HARBOR | $111,523 |
| IHM SUBTENANT DBA SHERATON INNER HARBOR HOTEL | $108,319 |
| MCSAM HOTEL BALTIMORE HARBOR LLC DBA RADISSON HOTEL DOWNTOWN-INNER HARBOR | $103,832 |
| HARBOR EAST PARCEL D HOTEL LLC DBA FOUR SEASONS HOTEL BALTIMORE | $82,040 |
| 511 S CENTRAL AVENUE LLC | $66,658 |
| HIT TRS HOLDING COURTYARD BALTIMORE INNER HARBOR HOTEL MARRIOTT COURTYAR | $65,696 |
| RESIDENCE INN BALTIMORE JOHNS HOPKINS CAMPUS LSH GE GATEWAY 2 LLC | $62,171 |
| SUMMIT HOTEL TRS 137 LLC RESIDENCE INN BALTIMORE | $60,569 |
| BEST WESTERN TRAVEL PLAZA | $56,082 |
| MVH BALTIMORE HOTEL HOTEL INDIGO BALTIMORE-MT VERNON | $51,916 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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.
33 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
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
- BHBALTIMORE HOTEL CORPORATION DBA HILTON BALTIMORE INNER HARBOR2× · 2021–2022 · $611k
- IHINNER HARBOR EAST HOTEL II OPERATOR LLC2× · 2021–2022 · $584k
- BHBALTIMORE HOTEL XLV OWNER LLC (RENAISSANCE BALTIMORE)2× · 2021–2022 · $533k
Funded once
- HBHOTEL BALTIMORE OPCO LPone grant, 2021 · $227k
- DIDAYS INN INNER HARBOR INCone grant, 2021 · $213k
- KBKHP2 BALTIMOREone grant, 2021 · $201k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
1 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. 1 of the 52 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Visit Baltimore Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.