Baltimore Community Foundation
Legal name: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237180620
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- (410) 332-4171
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,559,630
- Expenses
- $37,455,302
- Assets
- $314,342,693
- Liabilities
- $16,900,504
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHANAYSHA SAULS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- BRIAN O'MALLEY (PRESIDENT & CEO CMTA)
Highest reported compensation
- SHANAYSHA SAULS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $337,197 total reported compensation
- ASHLEY MANCINELLI (VP PHILANTHROPY): $198,765 total reported compensation
- CRYSTAL HARDEN (VP COMMUNITY IMPACT): $191,824 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Inspire donors to achieve their charitable goals from generation to generation and to improve the quality of life in the Baltimore region through grantmaking, enlightened civic leadership, and strategic investments.
What it reported doing in 2024
Civic leadership: bcf addresses community issues using grants, program initiatives and advocacy. Current priorities for these efforts are education and neighborhoods. Grants are made possible largely by discretionary endowments entrusted to bcf by donors. Advocacy efforts are supported by annual gifts and an endowment for civic leadership. Bcf programs include: the central Maryland transportation alliance. Bcf works with partners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors to achieve its civic leadership goals, and offers donors the opportunity to learn and give together to make baltimore better.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.39; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $337K · 34 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $246K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 613 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 601 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.