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Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door

Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,068 to it, the largest being FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ($191,435). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$106k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$486k
Net assets
$-756238
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door does

Mission

To improve the quality of life for the residents.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Boys & Girls Club - Youth Programming ages 6-12 years old. Programming is offered in the form of an afterschool program and summer camp. Our goal is to help offset the violence, trauma, academic under performance and unhealthy lifestyles of the residents in our community

  2. Food Pantry - Twice a week we provide food and other resources to the families in our community in need. This includes food (produce, bakery, meat, dairy, et.), personal care items, household items, COVID kits and community information

  3. Resiliency Hub - Baltimore Citys Resiliency Hubs partner with government agencies and other local stakeholders to collect and distribute real-time information needed to make community decisions, serve as a staging place for first responders, serve as an emergency center for residents (providing fans, food, water, and shelter), and strengthen overall community readiness among other things.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($94k)2021 Revenue 195 ($139k) Expenses 85 ($80k)2022 Revenue 276 ($196k) Expenses 142 ($134k)2023 Revenue 301 ($214k) Expenses 213 ($201k)2024 Revenue 392 ($279k) Expenses 140 ($132k)2025 Revenue 149 ($106k) Expenses 167 ($158k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (149)Expenses (167)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 2020 to 2021, from $29k to $90k (+206%).

$29k
$90k
$120k
$91k
$140k
$87k
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

90% of Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$23k
’20
$60k
’21
$63k
’22
$13k
’23
$147k
’24
−$52k
’25
11
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.

Board chair

Michael Gaines

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

20232024
Listed65
Joined·+0
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $111k → $34k.

2 of 13 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.

From the IRS filings of Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door’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 Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door.

39%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 49% · 2019 62% · 2020 63% · 2021 51% · 2022 36% · 2023 34% — 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 Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

95% of Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

NY
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−49% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door?
Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,068 to it, the largest being FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ($191,435). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $486,068 in grants to Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door?
FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $191,435 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation aka The Door 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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