Maryland · Nonprofit
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC (Maryland) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,161,049 to it, the largest being CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ($2,274,240). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inclocalportfolio match
- The Fund for Change Incshared funderslocal
- Kentfields Foundationportfolio 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 27% · 2019 53% · 2020 56% · 2021 51% · 2022 6% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $123k → $517k.
7 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 TREE TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 TREE TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 TREE TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 45% · 2019 24% · 2020 41% · 2021 38% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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
50% of BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
76% of BALTIMORE TREE TRUST 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. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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 50 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 49 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for Change Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Kentfields Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard C Muller and Marguerite E Muller Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charm City Run Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Educational Excellence Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 121 organizations that share your funders · funds 181 organizations near you
- Thalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund Incshared fundersMD · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- Richman Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Frank E & Miriam Loveman Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you
- The John J Leidy Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 106 organizations that share your funders · funds 104 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 TREE TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record — $7.0M federal, $1.9M state.
- Department of Agriculture$7.0M
- Department of the Interior$50k
- Grant$1.9M
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 TREE TRUST INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALTIMORE TREE TRUST 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.
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 TREE TRUST INC?
- BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC (Maryland) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,161,049 to it, the largest being CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ($2,274,240). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $7,161,049 in grants to BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC?
- CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,274,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALTIMORE TREE TRUST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 50funders 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