Maryland · Nonprofit
PIGTOWN CLIMBS
PIGTOWN CLIMBS (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Pigtown Climbs does
Mission
Pigtown Climbs is a community driven organization and space that uses climbing and sustainable programming to foster black liberation, promote wellness, and connect the communities of Southwest Baltimore to the outdoors. We hope to expand this mission into a physical outdoor climbing and community space that our neighbors can grow in for years to come. This space and our programming exist to uplift self-identified black and brown folks, minimize barriers to getting outdoors and prioritize accessibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Move Well Fest: Free festival in park, providing free health and wellness activities, vendors, classes, and games.
$13,000 spent39% of program spendingAutumn Ascent:40 person weekend long climbing and camping trip
$10,852 spent32% of program spendingNeighborhood Fesitcal Kid Zone Program
$4,685 spent14% of program spendinggeneral programs meet-ups, board meetings and trainings
$5,000 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,537.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $75k to $50k (−34%).
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.
96% of PIGTOWN CLIMBS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PIGTOWN CLIMBS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
PIGTOWN CLIMBS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 PIGTOWN CLIMBS.
“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
64% of PIGTOWN CLIMBS's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
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.
Against its field
PIGTOWN CLIMBS's revenue fell 76% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PIGTOWN CLIMBS
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PIGTOWN CLIMBS: 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 PIGTOWN CLIMBS?
- PIGTOWN CLIMBS (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIGTOWN CLIMBS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $125,000 in grants to PIGTOWN CLIMBS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIGTOWN CLIMBS?
- FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIGTOWN CLIMBS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 7 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