Baltimore Office of Promotion
Baltimore, MD · EIN 90-0091850. Reported 70 grants totalling $810,402 to 42 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Office of Promotion, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 12% 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 $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,550 and the largest $58,459. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fusion Partnerships Inc | Baltimore, MD | $98,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District Inc | Baltimore, MD | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Community Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $58,459 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Muse 360 Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $43,300 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Arts Every Day Inc | Baltimore, MD | $38,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Citylit Project Inc | Baltimore, MD | $37,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Urban Fellows Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | New York, NY | $34,300 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wide Angle Youth Media Inc | Baltimore, MD | $32,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Galerie Myrtis | Baltimore, MD | $31,590 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maryland Lawyers for the Arts Inc | Baltimore, MD | $24,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc | Owings Mills, MD | $24,480 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Central Baltimore Partnership Inc | Baltimore, MD | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Empact Art Inc | Baltimore, MD | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Baltimore School for the Arts Fdn Inc | Baltimore, MD | $15,200 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Make Studio Art Program Inc | Baltimore, MD | $14,833 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baltimore Theatre Project | Baltimore, MD | $14,550 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arts for Learning Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Single Carrot Theatre | Baltimore, MD | $13,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fells Point Creative Alliance | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Maryland Philanthropy Network Inc | Baltimore, MD | $9,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Childrens Choir Inc | Baltimore, MD | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Le Mondo Inc | Baltimore, MD | $8,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bristol Players Inc | Baltimore, MD | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maryland Humanities Council Inc | Baltimore, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Baltimore Filmmakers Collective Inc | Baltimore, MD | $7,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc | Baltimore, MD | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Columbia Community Care Inc | Columbia, MD | $6,690 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center Stage Associates Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baltimore Jazz Alliance Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Baltimore Rock Opera Society Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dance and Bmore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Full Circle Dance Company | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Magical Experiences Arts Company Ltd | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nuestras Raices Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Access Art Inc | Baltimore, MD | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Afro Charities Inc | Baltimore, MD | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ballet After Dark Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beyond Fearless Inspired By Truth Inc | Baltimore, MD | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Everyman Theatre Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
13 of 42 (31%) 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.
- Fusion Partnerships Inc
CREATIVE BALTIMORE FUND, COMMUNITIES THRIVE - Galerie Myrtis
ARTSCAPE GALLERY NETWORK AWARD - The Central Baltimore Partnership Inc
CREATIVE BALTIMORE & COMMUNITY ARTS GRANT - Muse 360
CREATIVE BALTIMORE FUND, ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, FREE FALL BALTIMORE & COMMUNITIES THRIVE - Young Audiences of Maryland Inc
CREATIVE BALTIMORE FUND, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - Citylit Project Inc
CREATIVE BALTIMORE FUND, FREE FALL BALTIMORE & COMMUNITIES THRIVE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 21 | $250,700 | $8,200 |
| 2021 | 18 | $189,153 | $7,116 |
| 2022 | 13 | $138,300 | $7,400 |
| 2023 | 18 | $232,249 | $8,300 |
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
91% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $8,000 -- 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 Office of Promotion's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 7 St Paul Street Suite 100, Baltimore, MD, 21202.
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