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HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE

HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,852 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.9M
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
$51k
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $51k to it.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 119 ($2.5M) Expenses 140 ($3.1M) Net assets 85 ($3.5M)2019 Revenue 55 ($1.2M) Expenses 93 ($2.0M) Net assets 66 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 82 ($1.7M) Expenses 68 ($1.5M) Net assets 74 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 51 ($1.1M) Expenses 51 ($1.1M) Net assets 75 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 151 ($3.2M) Expenses 101 ($2.2M) Net assets 95 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 70 ($1.5M) Expenses 81 ($1.8M) Net assets 91 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 90 ($1.9M) Expenses 94 ($2.1M) Net assets 88 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (90)Expenses (94)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 19% · 2019 5% · 2020 81% · 2021 11% · 2022 46% · 2023 7% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

31% of HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
17
$533k
18
$872k
19
$250k
20
$33k
21
$1.0M
22
$271k
23
$139k
24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $23.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% 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 HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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

HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

77% 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 HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE.

29%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.

How long its funders stay

17% of HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

80% of HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

WI
MD
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. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 177 organizations that share them.

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 HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.

State$1.9M
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Top programs
  • Grant$1.9M

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 HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

83
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 13 related entities

  • Baltimore Maritime Museum · disregarded
  • Project Serve · exempt
  • National Historic Seaport of Baltimore · exempt
  • Frederick Douglas-Isaac Myers Maritime · exempt
  • Living Classrooms Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE: 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 HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE?
HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,852 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $50,852 in grants to HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE?
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HISTORIC SHIPS IN BALTIMORE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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