Maryland · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC
DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,416 to it, the largest being Mercy Medical Center ($166,841). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $493k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc does
Mission
Promote, advance and stimulate civic, business, commercial and residential interests and general welfare in and around the charles street corridor of baltimore city and adjoining areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership/marketing activities include networking events, annual meeting, access to annual reports on the state of downtown development, monthly emails on downtown news and events and various guides to downtown as well as website access
Business and economic development activities including market research, business retention, retail initiative and facade improvement in the downtown area
Consumer marketing activities - many activities open to the public including outdoor fitness, curbside cafe's, pints in the park, pics in the park, farmers & craft markets, holiday retail promotion and monument lighting.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $6.8M (+79%).
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 1% · 2018 11% · 2019 6% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% · 2024 37% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kerry Watson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $143k.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC’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
DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 79% · 2022 56% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE 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. 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.
Government funding DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.4M on record — $6k federal, $18.4M state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$6k
- Grant$17.6M
- Loan$800k
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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Downtown Ptnrshp of Baltimore Foundation · exempt
- Downtown Mgmt Authority for Balt City · exempt
- Center Plaza Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE 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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC?
- DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,416 to it, the largest being Mercy Medical Center ($166,841). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $493,416 in grants to DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE INC?
- Mercy Medical Center is the largest funder on record, with $166,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OF BALTIMORE 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 2017–2025), 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