Maryland · Nonprofit
THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC
THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,926,053 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($500,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc does
Mission
The peale provides an accessible platform for artistic, scientific, and cultural projects where participants can take creative risks, learn, connect with communities in baltimore and beyond, and share their stories both in the historic peale museum building and online.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In addition to tours of the historic museum building and garden, the peale hosts exhibition, performance, talks, workshops, meeting, and professional development programs. The peale also produces storytelling programs both on its premises and at partner sites around baltimore.
$847,731 spentof which $108,145 as grants$249,847 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $847,731.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $3.3M (+125%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 40% · 2019 76% · 2020 32% · 2021 8% · 2022 35% · 2023 32% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $46k → $383k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE 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
THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 66% · 2019 43% · 2020 82% · 2021 36% · 2022 37% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
57% of THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k 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.
Against its field
THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $917k federal, $148k state.
- Department of Labor$420k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$300k
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
- Smithsonian Institution$72k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
- Grant$148k
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 THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC
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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Peale LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC?
- THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,926,053 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($500,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,926,053 in grants to THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC?
- THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE 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 29 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