Maryland · Nonprofit
BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,080 to it, the largest being THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 276 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 276 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Fund for Change Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Lockhart Vaughan Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 21% · 2018 25% · 2019 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 84% · 2022 48% · 2023 69% · 2024 0% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $25k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $130k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Baltimore Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Fund for Change Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 103 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lockhart Vaughan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMD · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Civic Fund Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 306 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southway Builders Charitable Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jean and Sidney Silber Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you
- Fund for Educational Excellence Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 98 organizations that share your funders · funds 181 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.8M on record — $1.8M federal, $14.0M state.
- Small Business Administration$1.7M
- Department of Commerce$120k
- Loan$8.1M
- Grant$5.9M
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 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Made in Baltimore Inc · disregarded
- Emerging Technology Centers Inc · exempt
- City of Baltimore Small Business · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,080 to it, the largest being THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $867,080 in grants to BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing