Maryland · Nonprofit
FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC
FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,373 to it, the largest being WHEELER FOUNDATION ($250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- The Fund for Change Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Incshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2020 1% · 2021 7% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $46k → $615k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FARM ALLIANCE 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
FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 37% · 2021 28% · 2022 43% · 2023 28% — 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 FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
64% of FARM ALLIANCE 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. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Fund for Change Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 123 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Aid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Rural Affairsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Giving Groveportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Globetrotter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Communications Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you
- Fund for Educational Excellence Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 121 organizations that share your funders · funds 181 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 FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $992k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$992k
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 FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE 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
64% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARM ALLIANCE 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.
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 FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC?
- FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,373 to it, the largest being WHEELER FOUNDATION ($250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,442,373 in grants to FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC?
- WHEELER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARM ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 28funders 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