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SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC

SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,432,247 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($310,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.8M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$3.8M
14/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Southwest Baltimore Charter School Inc does

Mission

Sbcs, a title 1 school, seeks to provide each child with the tools necessary to live a fulfilling, productive life. The rigorous expeditionary learning (el) school model is engaging and student-centered. El cultivates students' love of learning, curiosity, and critical thinking skills. We believe that academic success in the classroom is integrally linked to life and opportunities outside the classroom. Sbcs is the intersection at which a child's academic, family and community lives come together to create a learning environment that is challenging, supportive and fun.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Southwest baltimore charter school acknowledges and nurtures the talents of all children in a culturally and socially diverse community.

    $7,200,088 spent$7,538,881 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,200,088.

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 ($5.3M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 95 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 99 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 100 ($5.3M) Expenses 105 ($5.3M) Net assets 98 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 113 ($6.0M) Expenses 107 ($5.4M) Net assets 147 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 121 ($6.5M) Expenses 120 ($6.1M) Net assets 168 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 136 ($7.2M) Expenses 142 ($7.2M) Net assets 169 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 166 ($8.8M) Expenses 149 ($7.5M) Net assets 244 ($4.1M)2024 Revenue 147 ($7.8M) Expenses 161 ($8.2M) Net assets 223 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (161)Net assets (223)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 $3.0M to $4.3M (+44%).

$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$2.5M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$4.3M
$4.1M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

3% of SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$246k
’17
−$17k
’18
−$10k
’19
$601k
’20
$353k
’21
$16k
’22
$1.3M
’23
−$360k
’24
0.3
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.

Chief executive

Tim Smith

Executive director

Board chair

Stefanie Croslin

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1311101099911
Joined·+2+0+1+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·4111001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $121k → $55k.

6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL 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

SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

68% 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 SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC.

22%
largest funder
51%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 41% · 2019 64% · 2020 55% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 72% — 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

13% of SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

77% of SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

PA
MD
NC
DC
TX

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

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’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,432,247 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($310,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,432,247 in grants to SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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