Maryland · Nonprofit
BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC
BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,413 to it, the largest being CAPE FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $307k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $234k
- Net assets
- $820k
What Baltimore Classical Guitar Society Inc does
Mission
Organization is dedicated to fostering the awareness and appreciation of the classical guitar. We believe that the guitar is an accessible and versatile instrument that is uniquely capable of bringing classical music to everyone. We are dedicated to keeping up with our mission of educating the public about classical guitar.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
International concert series: the bcgs brings the whos who in classical guitar from around the world to perform in baltimore each year. From grammy-winning superstars to young rising stars, as well as showcases with local artists and eensembles.
$109,489 spent$32,340 earned by the program79% of program spendingLullaby project: the lullaby project seeks to bring social change to underserved communities through the guitar. We pair a grammy-winning artist with partcipants, and together they write a personal lullaby. We work with teen moms aged 14-18 who are struggling with new life as mothers, in addition to workshops with immigrants and refugees who are adjusting to a new life in our country, low income seniors, and with disabled veterans and veterans in long-term care and military families.
$15,457 spent$23,055 earned by the program11% of program spendingGuitars for change: guitars for change is an after-school program in which we identity immigrant youth at risk and give them free guitars and lessons in an after-school program. The program is run in an area that has aggressive gang activity, and immigrant children are especially at risk for induction into a gang because there are fewer after-school programs in whcih they can take part in.
$14,270 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $139,216.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $376k to $518k (+38%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 20% · 2022 18% · 2023 36% · 2024 20% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $7k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC’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 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 53% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 50% · 2022 62% · 2023 75% — 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
75% of BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC
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.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC?
- BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,413 to it, the largest being CAPE FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $234,413 in grants to BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC?
- CAPE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALTIMORE CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY INC 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.
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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 7 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