Maryland · Nonprofit
Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD
Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $216k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD does
Mission
To provide professionals in the fashion industry superior education, networking and resources as well as giving back to the community through charitable programs and contributions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sharp Dressed Man, uses gently pre loved quality garments, provides a one on one styling experience for the client, which results in a look appropriate for interviews and court appearances. Additionally the organization provides offsite services to the community in the mobile unit. Our service supports men in high risk, low income demographics, returned citizens, veterans, and addiction recovery.
$194,105 spent$204,570 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,105.
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 $31k to $68k (+117%).
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.
99% of Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Christopher Schafer
CEO & Founder, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Fashion Alliance LTD’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 Fashion Alliance LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 Fashion Alliance LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
59% of Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $63k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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.
Against its field
Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD?
- Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $153,000 in grants to Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Baltimore Fashion Alliance LTD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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