Family League of Baltimore City Inc
Baltimore, MD · EIN 52-1734848. Reported 274 grants totalling $65.0M to 158 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 Family League of Baltimore City Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P400) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 158 distinct organizations, with 9% 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. 71% 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 $92,424. Half of what it reported fell between $38,616 and $248,835; the smallest was $6,250 and the largest $2,706,692. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumondawmin Healthy Families Inc | Baltimore, MD | $5,793,274 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Drumondawmin Healthy Familie | Baltimore, MD | $3,969,388 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Baltimore Ubran Debate League | Baltimore, MD | $3,194,350 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Recovery Program Inc | Baltimore, MD | $2,764,498 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Family Recovery Program Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $2,754,363 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| YMCA in Central MD | Baltimore, MD | $2,646,114 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $2,506,116 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Family Tree Inc | Baltimore, MD | $2,201,032 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Child First Authority Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,913,128 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Baltimore Civic Fund Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,715,583 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,624,651 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of MD Bal County | Baltimore, MD | $1,588,278 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Family Tree Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,528,144 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Child First Authority Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,465,363 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of MD Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $1,311,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $1,275,126 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Robertas House Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,108,432 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $1,081,215 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Baltimore Medical System Inc | Baltimore, MD | $947,132 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| ELEV8 Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $852,991 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Baltimore Healthy Start Inc | Baltimore, MD | $820,769 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Vision Youth Services Inc | Randallstown, MD | $800,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| ELEV8 Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $797,547 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baltimore City Health Dept | Baltimore, MD | $780,316 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Access Art Inc | Baltimore, MD | $777,388 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maryland Philanthropy Network | Baltimore, MD | $709,350 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| New Vision Youth Services | Randallstown, MD | $675,361 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Maryland Philanthropy Network Inc | Baltimore, MD | $629,999 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Keys Empowers Inc | Baltimore, MD | $616,460 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Robertas House Inc | Baltimore, MD | $577,191 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Keys Empowers Inc | Gwynn Oak, MD | $566,825 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc | Owings Mills, MD | $560,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Park Heights Renaissance | Baltimore, MD | $545,275 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc | Baltimore, MD | $494,158 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way Worldwide | Alexandria, VA | $451,755 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rich-Restoring Inner City Hope Inc | Baltimore, MD | $450,885 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Park Heights Renaissance Inc | Baltimore, MD | $426,836 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| United Way of Central MD | Baltimore, MD | $339,979 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Southeast Community Development | Baltimore, MD | $330,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southeast Community Developme | Baltimore, MD | $328,459 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bellxcel | Baltimore, MD | $323,211 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Movement Team Inc | Middle River, MD | $311,875 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bmore Empowered | Baltimore, MD | $309,578 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Natural Born Champions Inc | Baltimore, MD | $308,135 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| John Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $304,014 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Patterson Park Public Charter | Baltimore, MD | $301,796 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $296,875 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Higher Achievement Program Inc | Washington, DC | $296,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Civic Works Inc | Baltimore, MD | $270,971 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Btst Cares Inc | Lanham, MD | $270,460 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bmore Empowered Inc | Baltimore, MD | $269,005 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Strong City Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $255,013 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bluebird Education Network Inc | Baltimore, MD | $247,002 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $241,111 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Koinonia Baptist Church | Baltimore, MD | $220,840 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Moving History Inc | Baltimore, MD | $197,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village Learning Place Inc | Baltimore, MD | $194,874 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Creative Alliance | Baltimore, MD | $186,173 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Restoring Inner City Hope | Baltimore, MD | $185,850 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Villiage Learning Place | Baltimore, MD | $180,048 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Fusion Partnerships Inc | Baltimore, MD | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Smart Steps Youth Services | Baltimore, MD | $169,462 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mtm Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $154,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Learning How Child Developmen | Baltimore, MD | $151,231 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Baltimor | Baltimore, MD | $140,099 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lets Thrive Baltimore Inc | Owings Mills, MD | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Uplift Alliance Inc | Baltimore, MD | $139,751 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soccer Without Borders | Baltimore, MD | $128,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Improving Education Inc | Baltimore, MD | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Next One Up Foundation Inc | Towson, MD | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Soccer Without Borders | Baltimore, MD | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| US Dream Academy | Columbia, MD | $117,241 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Higher Achievement Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $115,123 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Civic Works | Baltimore, MD | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Fusion Partnerships Inc | Baltimore, MD | $107,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Cen | Baltimore, MD | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northbay Education Inc | North East, MD | $103,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Muse 360 | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Muse 360 Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bon Secours of Maryland Found | Baltimore, MD | $98,670 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Strong City Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $98,551 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heartsmiles LLC | Baltimore, MD | $98,200 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation | New York, NY | $92,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Magic Minds Inc | Elkridge, MD | $90,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catherines Family and Youth Services Inc | Baltimore, MD | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Excellence & Ambition Inc | Owings Mills, MD | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Excellence & Ambition Inc | Baltimore, MD | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Btst Cares Inc | Baltimore, MD | $80,671 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catherines Family and Youth | Baltimore, MD | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Imagine Me Ministries Inc | Reisterstown, MD | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Banner Neighborhoods Communit | Baltimore, MD | $79,698 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bridging the Gap Inc | Baltimore, MD | $79,353 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Movement Team | Baltimore, MD | $76,470 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Code in the Schools Inc | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| We Will All Rise | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Full Gospel Fellowship Church | Baltimore, MD | $72,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| CASA De Maryland Inc | Hyattsville, MD | $70,276 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| CASA Inc | Hyattsville, MD | $68,681 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Baltimore Found | Baltimore, MD | $61,877 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 1012 Sports Inc | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mentoring Mentors Inc | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Umar Boxing Program Inc | Baltimore, MD | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Code in the Schools Inc | Baltimore, MD | $58,814 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Black Wall Street Charm City | Baltimore, MD | $57,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| US Dream Academy Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $55,447 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Koinonia Baptist Church | Baltimore, MD | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bon Secours Community Works Inc | Baltimore, MD | $54,527 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baltimore Squashwise | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Girls Cook | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Corner Team | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Joy Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Magic Minds Inc | Elkridge, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Springboard Community Service | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Project Pneuma Inc | Baltimore, MD | $49,127 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beyond the Natural Foundation | Catonsville, MD | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Next One Up Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Creative Nomads Ltd | Baltimore, MD | $40,095 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Beautiful Butterflies | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Italian Cultural Center | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Joy Baltimore Corp | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Digital Harbor Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harlem Lacrosse and Leadershi | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Imagine Me Ministries | Baltimore, MD | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Leonard E Hicks Community Ce | Baltimore, MD | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| We Will All Rise Inc | Baltimore, MD | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rise Arts Center of Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $32,703 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mentoring Mentors Inc | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mtm Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Restorative Response Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Umar Boxing Program Inc | Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Holistic Life Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $27,195 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jessica Smith | Owings Mills, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| John Newman Honeybee Company | Randallstown, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| PTA Delaware Congress | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Urban Youth Initiative Project Inc | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City Weeds | Baltimore, MD | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Omega Baltimore Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $21,307 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fund for Educational Excellence Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Learning How Inc | Baltimore, MD | $18,020 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Women in Transition Inc | Baltimore, MD | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Creative Nomads Ltd | Baltimore, MD | $17,457 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Loyola Early Learning Center | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pop Inc | Essex, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 1012 Sports Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Angel Mooring | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City Weeds | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| From Prison Cells to Phd Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| No Boundaries Coalition Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sharp Arrows | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Fund for Education Excell | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban Oasis Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bit Community Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Holistic Life Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $7,886 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Digital Harbor Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Leveling the Playing Field | Silver Spring, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mentoring Male Teens in the H | Ellicott City, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tendea Family Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
94 of 158 (59%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 66 of 158 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 | 60 | $14.1M | $121,221 |
| 2021 | 70 | $16.8M | $59,506 |
| 2022 | 78 | $17.3M | $60,000 |
| 2023 | 66 | $16.7M | $128,078 |
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
99% 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 $92,424 -- 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 Family League of Baltimore City Inc'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 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 69 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: Po Box 50129, Baltimore, MD, 21211.
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