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GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC

GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($29,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$90k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$31k
Net assets
$42k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Greater Baltimore Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc does

Mission

Directly assisted small black-owned businesses

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Directly assisted small black-owned businesses with grant funding and technical assistance

    $85,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($7k) Net assets 100 ($102k)2022 Revenue 114 ($124k) Expenses 363 ($25k) Net assets 197 ($200k)2023 Revenue 65 ($71k) Expenses 1631 ($112k) Net assets 156 ($159k)2024 Revenue 83 ($90k) Expenses 1651 ($113k) Net assets 42 ($42k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (83)Expenses (1651)Net assets (42)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 2023 to 2024, from $159k to $42k (−73%).

$102k
$200k
$159k
$42k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’21
$99k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$23k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Tobi Pulley

Executive director

Board chair

Debra Keller-Greene

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $19k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION 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

GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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

95% of GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.

MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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

GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 17% between 2021 and 2024.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC?
GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($29,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,500 in grants to GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC?
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $29,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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