Maryland · Nonprofit
BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION
BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,771,036 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($4,437,821). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Baltimore Public Media Corporation does
Mission
We connect, inform, and enrich the voices and communities of baltimore and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Baltimore public media unites two of the area's public media radio stations, wypr 88.1 fm and wtmd 89.7 fm, under a single, dynamic umbrella.wypr informs, connects and even challenges the listeners we serve in the metropolitan baltimore area and the state of maryland by broadcasting programs of intellectual and cultural merit so as to provide an unbiased perspective of the events of today and to enrich the minds and spirits of our audience.wtmd is the most trusted source for music and cultural programing in the region and baltimore's home for total music discovery. We believe a rich, vibrant, thriving and diverse music and arts scene can elevate a city and enrich lives of its residents. With listener support, wtmd strengthens communities and provides unmatched opportunities for baltimore musicians and artists. Wtmd connects artists with audiences through significant and meaningful airplay, live concerts, art openings, film screenings and more.
$4,888,872 spent$2,764,713 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,888,872.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $16M (+34%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 15% · 2024 13% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Bradley Schlaggar
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $513k → $1.2M.
15 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 funders by total. 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 PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 68% · 2019 58% · 2020 66% · 2021 66% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — 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
58% of BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
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 PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 2 related entities
- Wypr License Holding LLC · disregarded
- 2216 North Charles Street LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION?
- BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,771,036 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($4,437,821). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $8,771,036 in grants to BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $4,437,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA 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.
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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 96 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing