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BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH

BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,921 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($791,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$657k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Health does

Mission

To address unemployment, underemployment and healthcare workforce shortages in the baltimore region by identifying healthcare career pathways and connecting residents to skilled jobs, leading to economic independence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Apprenticeship program - this program, developed to mitigate hiring and retention challenges found within the healthcare industry, is directed by the Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare (bach). Bach is working with baltimore area hospitals and long-term care faciliites to design competency-based registered apprenticeships (ra) for in-demand occupations and tapping underemployed or unemployed maryland residents, including immigrants with international professional experience and education to meet hiring needs. Recruitment and outreach are being conducted by bach and various community partners.

    $445,013 spent
    41% of program spending
  2. The earnmd program was established to address issues of unemployment and underemployment in the healthcare sector by: 1) accelerating job training and placement in selected entry-level healthcare positions in the baltimore metropolitan region; 2) continuing to expand the partnership; 3) addressing other relevant issues identified by employers and trainers; and 4) continuing to reduce barriers to entry-level employment and promotion.

    $115,000 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. Bach training institute experience includes workforce development services and skills training for entry level and mid-level healthcare occupations. Such as certified nursing assistant, certified medical aide, geriatric nursing assistant, medical assistant, patient care technician, central sterile processing technician and more.bach fellows program prepares the next generation of baltimore's healthcare workforce by introducing approximately 35 high school students annually to careers in the healthcare industry. Working with partner organizations, we provide juniors, seniors and recent graduates with exposure to the inner workings of hospital and other healthcare institutions. Bach fellows participate in a five-week paid internship during the summer.

    $510,363 spent
    47% of program spending
  4. Career coaching toolkit - bach's career coaching model has been embraced by organizations from around the country. Bach has been engaged in two major federal grant submissions as a partner to provide technical assistance to the projects providing overall support to the activity and/or advancing front-line workers, and will assist with developing practices which result in higher levels of employer engagement among baltimore region healthcare employers. Bach endeavors to ameliorate academic challenges for its target population by providing innovative programming to advance candidates more swiftly into healthcare programs. Bach is looking into other practices which may bring such accomplishments to scale.career coaching - bach's peer learning center continues to evolve with monthly training for baltimore region healthcare employers. Bach's role is to provide technical assistance to that effort, and spent a significant amount of its resources to position the organization with other entities interested in advancing front-line workers. In the health field bach is named in two major grant initiatives to directly provide coaching services via a bach employer relationship or to provide…

    $8,651 spent
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,079,027.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($432k)2018 Revenue 132 ($1.7M) Expenses 136 ($1.5M) Net assets 153 ($660k)2019 Revenue 80 ($1.0M) Expenses 116 ($1.2M) Net assets 105 ($452k)2020 Revenue 123 ($1.6M) Expenses 120 ($1.3M) Net assets 173 ($748k)2021 Revenue 90 ($1.2M) Expenses 120 ($1.3M) Net assets 141 ($610k)2022 Revenue 130 ($1.7M) Expenses 123 ($1.3M) Net assets 220 ($953k)2023 Revenue 74 ($956k) Expenses 104 ($1.1M) Net assets 183 ($790k)2024 Revenue 80 ($1.0M) Expenses 115 ($1.2M) Net assets 136 ($586k)2025 Revenue 113 ($1.5M) Expenses 129 ($1.4M) Net assets 152 ($657k)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (129)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $544k to $912k (+68%).

$599k
$735k
$544k
$912k
$773k
$1.0M
$836k
$725k
$746k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
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2020
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2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 38% · 2019 39% · 2020 30% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 70% · 2024 68% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$210k
’17
$228k
’18
−$208k
’19
$295k
’20
−$138k
’21
$343k
’22
−$163k
’23
−$204k
’24
$71k
’25
4.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Karen Heyward-West

Executive director

Board chair

Susan Hussey

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+4+4+1+6+0+7+9+0
No longer listed·442323102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $263k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

64%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record — $4.7M federal, $1.1M state.

Federal$4.7M
grants $4.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$4.7M
State$1.1M
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Top programs
  • Grant$1.1M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 20%Fundraising 2%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH?
BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,921 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($791,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,241,921 in grants to BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH?
THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $791,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BALTIMORE ALLIANCE FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing