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HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC

HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,920,899 to it, the largest being FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($1,083,119). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.2M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$25M
14/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%
01What it does

What Hippodrome Foundation Inc does

Program

  1. In addition to presenting the best of national touring broadway in baltimore, hippodrome foundation, inc. (hfi) is committed to providing access to the hippodrome - and all of its assets - to people who live in and visit maryland by providing free outreach and education programs in the community. Board members and staff work to provide programs that provide opportunities for students of all ages that make a difference in their lives - whether as a camp hippodrome camper, as a young critic reviewing shows, a student attending one of our free matinees or as a dancer from baltimore school for the arts participating in a master class. Hfi has provided services to thousands of people since the re-opening of the hippodrome on february 10, 2004.

    $2,965,019 spent$2,310,248 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,965,019.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 111 ($2.3M) Expenses 111 ($2.2M) Net assets 108 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 300 ($6.3M) Expenses 111 ($2.2M) Net assets 310 ($6.2M)2020 Revenue 108 ($2.3M) Expenses 109 ($2.2M) Net assets 317 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 94 ($2.0M) Expenses 81 ($1.6M) Net assets 355 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 397 ($8.3M) Expenses 108 ($2.2M) Net assets 630 ($13M)2023 Revenue 584 ($12M) Expenses 126 ($2.6M) Net assets 1125 ($22M)2024 Revenue 181 ($3.8M) Expenses 165 ($3.3M) Net assets 1159 ($23M)2025 Revenue 250 ($5.2M) Expenses 190 ($3.9M) Net assets 1227 ($25M)
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Revenue (250)Expenses (190)Net assets (1227)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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $24M (+79%).

$2.5M
$2.7M
$7.0M
$6.8M
$7.5M
$13M
$24M
$24M
$25M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 17% · 2022 6% · 2023 69% · 2024 22% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
’17
$97k
’18
$4.1M
’19
$79k
’20
$338k
’21
$6.2M
’22
$9.7M
’23
$456k
’24
$1.4M
’25
0.4
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

Walter D Pinkard Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed212525212524242523
Joined·+4+1+2+4+0+1+1+1
No longer listed·01601103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $78k → $283k.

2 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $115k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Baltimore Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of HIPPODROME 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

HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

37%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 35% · 2019 27% · 2020 36% · 2021 56% · 2022 42% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.

“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

31% of HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

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PA
CA
MD
DE
NC

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.3M on record.

State$9.3M
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Top programs
  • Grant$9.3M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 20%Fundraising 3%

Governance

20
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Hippodrome Performing Arts Center LLC · partnership
  • Bcpa Hippodrome Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC?
HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,920,899 to it, the largest being FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($1,083,119). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,920,899 in grants to HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIPPODROME FOUNDATION INC?
FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,083,119 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIPPODROME 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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