Maryland · Nonprofit
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,528,993 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,104,700). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Wide Angle Youth Media Inc does
Mission
Through media arts education, wide angle youth media collaborates with and amplifies the voices of baltimore youth to engage audiences across social divides. Our programs inspire creativity and instill confidence in young people, supporting them to navigate school, career, and life. Since 2000, wide angle youth media has worked with over 8,295 youth from across baltimore city who have produced thousands of media projects about their lives and communities. Wide angle youth media is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wide angle youth media's educational programs engage youth through a series of offerings:1. Community voices programs serve 250+ youth annually, through short-term workshops. 2. Baltimore speaks out serves 120 students each year through partnerships with local schools and community-based sites, through trimester-long offerings at 4 sites in fall, winter, and spring. See schedule o for more details.
$906,114 spent$75,961 earned by the program34% of program spendingOur workforce pathway includes two core components:1. High school & summer programs: high school workshops are semester-long, with tracks in design, video, photography, animation, and screenwriting, to provide 55+ high school students each term with 40+ hours of instruction. Summer opportunities continue through mediaworks, our employment program for young people ages 14-21.2. Employ (enrichment, mentoring, professional development & learning for older youth): paid media internships and registered apprenticeships for emerging creatives ages 18-26, offering hands-on client experience, mentorship, and career-aligned training.
$609,347 spent$12,533 earned by the program23% of program spendingSocial enterprise fee-for-service revenue streams include creative services for hire in photography, video, design, and communications. Employ interns and apprentices gain on the job training and grow their professional portfolios as they make media for clients. Additional fee-for-service programming includes fee-based workshops that bring hands-on media arts programming directly to partner sites to support their goals. See schedule o for more details.
$1,183,135 spent$499,540 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,698,596.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.2M to $10M (+219%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 15% · 2019 23% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 31% · 2024 4% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA 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 9 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.
Chief executive
Susan Malone
Executive director
Board chair
Patrick Oray
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $202k → $1.4M.
9 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 47% · 2019 34% · 2020 29% · 2021 12% · 2022 34% · 2023 15% — 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
52% of WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
92% of WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA 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. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $399k federal, $654k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$399k
- Grant$566k
- Loan$88k
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 WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC: 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 WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC?
- WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,528,993 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,104,700). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $8,528,993 in grants to WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,104,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA 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.
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 62 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