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Baltimore International Academy West Inc

Baltimore International Academy West Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$-372454
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Baltimore International Academy West Inc does

Mission

Baltimore International Academy-West is committed to providing a rigorous academiclearning environment that challenges all students to achieve our language immersion(Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, & French) and International Baccalaureateprograms and provide a culturally and linguistically diverse education to empowerour students to develop the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and skills necessaryto participate responsibly in a changing world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization offers rigorous, challenging curriculum that integratesinternational content across core subject areas and grade. The Organization iscommitted to learning world languages and actively engaging all or most students inlearning about the world outside of core subjects through classes such as art, music, and physical education, internationally focused electives, extracurricularactivities, service, and after school and summer programs.

    $4,070,227 spent$2,785,786 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,070,227.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets -496 ($-200823)2021 Revenue 123 ($1.9M) Expenses 119 ($2.1M) Net assets -1056 ($-427460)2022 Revenue 174 ($2.7M) Expenses 164 ($2.9M) Net assets -519 ($-209923)2023 Revenue 202 ($3.1M) Expenses 186 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($40k)2024 Revenue 261 ($4.0M) Expenses 227 ($4.0M) Net assets 54 ($22k)2025 Revenue 261 ($4.0M) Expenses 248 ($4.4M) Net assets -920 ($-372454)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (261)Expenses (248)Net assets (-920)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 2022 to 2023, from $557k to $1.2M (+114%).

$230k
$307k
$557k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$842k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 56% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2024 34% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

31% of Baltimore International Academy West Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$239k
’20
−$227k
’21
−$232k
’22
−$199k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$394k
’25
0.6
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

Kona-Facia Nepay

CEO

Board chair

Joe Nimely

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

202020212022202320242025
Listed11988814
Joined·+1+4+0+2+7
No longer listed·35021
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

Baltimore International Academy West Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Baltimore International Academy West Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $809k on record.

State$809k
19
20
Top programs
  • Grant$809k

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 International Academy West 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

Baltimore International Academy Inc100%The Baltimore Youth Alliance Inc80%Baltimore Classical Academy Inc79%Baltimore Lab School Inc79%Southwest Baltimore Charter School Inc79%Kipp Baltimore Inc79%Baltimore Montessori Inc79%Afya Baltimore Inc78%

Nationally

Baltimore International Academy Inc100%Bridgeport International Academy Inc84%Chesapeake Academy Inc81%Brookhaven Innovation Academy80%The Baltimore Youth Alliance Inc80%Betty Shabazz International Charter School79%Baltimore Classical Academy Inc79%Baltimore Lab School Inc79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Baltimore International Academy · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Baltimore International Academy West Inc: 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 International Academy West Inc?
Baltimore International Academy West Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Baltimore International Academy West Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Baltimore International Academy West Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Baltimore International Academy West Inc?
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Baltimore International Academy West 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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