Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc
Baltimore, MD · EIN 45-2429915. Reported 75 grants totalling $764,034 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,750. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $11,500; the smallest was $5,700 and the largest $25,543. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
75 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $764,034 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Architecture Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc | Baltimore, MD | $49,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Great Blacks in Wax Museum | Baltimore, MD | $47,665 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pride of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $44,715 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baltimore Concert Opera Inc | Baltimore, MD | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | $32,793 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Soc of Colonial Dames of America in the State of MD | Baltimore, MD | $30,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Maryland Women's Heritage Center | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Poe Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts | Baltimore, MD | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Committee of the Prebyterian Church | Baltimore, MD | $21,353 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Citylit Project Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Le Mondo Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| B & O Railroad Museum | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Charm City Fringe | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Downtown Sailing Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fells Point Creative Alliance Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of Patterson Park Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Intersection of Change Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Maryland Historical Society | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the City of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of Herring Run Parks Inc | Baltimore, MD | $13,277 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Childrens Museum Inc | Baltimore, MD | $12,440 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African American Fire Fighters Historical Society Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Civic Works Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Union Sq Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heritage Museum | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route Association | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sankofa Childrens Museum of African Cultures | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Baltimore Museum of Industry | Baltimore, MD | $9,390 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Painted Screen Society of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Single Carrot Theatre | Baltimore, MD | $7,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the President Street Station Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,375 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pigtown Main Street Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,326 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
24 of 38 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute & Cul
TO BENEFIT PROGRAMS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND HISTORIC SITES WITHIN THE BALTIMORE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $105,290 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 16 | $159,150 | $7,500 |
| 2023 | 20 | $234,412 | $10,676 |
| 2024 | 25 | $265,182 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1524 Hollins St, Baltimore, MD, 21223.
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