Baltimore Safe Haven

What Baltimore Safe Haven does

Baltimore Safe Haven is a Baltimore-based nonprofit organization founded in 2018 that provides integrated housing stability, health services, and community support to individuals and families in Baltimore, with an explicit focus on vulnerable LGBTQ community members. Its service model is delivered through direct community outreach and engagement in a single metropolitan geography (Baltimore, Maryland), and it operates with a small team (1-10 employees) from one headquarters location. The organization positions itself as a single integrated entry point for clients who need housing, health, and social belonging, addressing problems that are typically fragmented across multiple agencies.

The business model is grant- and donation-funded rather than revenue-generating in the commercial sense. The organization receives funding from institutional sources — including a $500,000 grant from the City of Baltimore in 2022 and a 2024 engagement with Gilead Sciences as lead funder — and accepts individual donations via Donorbox through its website. Distribution is via direct field service delivery; the website (baltimoresafehaven.org) functions as a top-of-funnel information and intake hub with a "Get Help Now" call-to-action, alongside sections for services, about, contact, events, press, and donate. There is no technology product, SaaS offering, app, or AI/ML component disclosed in the available data.

There are no disclosed headcount trends beyond the 1-10 band, no partnerships beyond the named funders, no acquisitions, no geographic expansion beyond Baltimore, and no leadership or governance disclosures in the input data. The organization operates under the tagline "We Are Community. We Won't Be Erased." and is structured as an independent nonprofit without a parent company.

Name

Baltimore Safe Haven

Legal name

Baltimore Safe Haven

Website

https://baltimoresafehaven.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Baltimore Safe Haven is a Baltimore-based nonprofit founded in 2018 that delivers integrated housing stability, health, and community support services to vulnerable LGBTQ individuals and families in Baltimore through direct community outreach and grant/donor funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Social Services (LGBTQ Housing, Health, and Community Support)

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Community Housing Services (62422)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

Keywords

• LGBTQ community services
• Housing stability programs
• Nonprofit social services
• Community outreach support
• Health services navigation

Headquarters

HQ city

Baltimore

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Baltimore Safe Haven is a nonprofit social services organization that connects individuals and families to housing stability, health services, and community support. Its core offering is an integrated set of outreach, drop-in, and housing programs delivered directly to Baltimore's most vulnerable LGBTQ community members under the tagline "We Are Community. We Won't Be Erased."

Product overview

Baltimore Safe Haven is a nonprofit social services organization, not a technology product company. It provides housing stability services, health services, and community support programs to individuals and families in Baltimore. The organization does not offer a software product platform, SaaS solution, or technology product suite.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Housing Stability Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• Point Foundation: Point Foundation is a national LGBTQ scholarship and leadership organization that supports LGBTQ students — comparable beneficiary population but a different service niche (scholarship/mentorship rather than housing and drop-in).
• Trans Lifeline: Trans Lifeline is a grassroots national peer-support hotline run by and for trans people — comparable beneficiary community and small-nonprofit operating model but a different delivery modality (peer hotline vs. in-person housing and outreach).

Direct peers

• SMYAL: SMYAL is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit serving LGBTQ youth with housing, drop-in services, and case management — directly comparable to Baltimore Safe Haven's LGBTQ-focused housing and outreach model in the mid-Atlantic.
• Ali Forney Center: Ali Forney Center operates the nation's largest housing program for LGBTQ homeless youth in NYC, offering emergency shelter, drop-in services, and case management — a near-identical service mix to Baltimore Safe Haven's housing + community support model.
• Ruth Ellis Center: Ruth Ellis Center is a Detroit-area nonprofit providing housing, health, and wraparound services specifically to LGBTQ youth and young adults — directly comparable in mission, population, and integrated service delivery.

Broad incumbents

• The Trevor Project: The Trevor Project is a large national LGBTQ youth organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention — overlaps in LGBTQ youth-serving mission and funder relationships but focused on crisis lines rather than housing.
• Los Angeles LGBT Center: The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a large multi-service LGBTQ organization offering housing, health, and social services, but at a vastly larger scale and as one of many programs within a broad portfolio — comparable service mix but a different operating tier.
• True Colors United: True Colors United is a national organization focused on preventing and ending homelessness among LGBTQ youth, providing training, advocacy, and program support — comparable beneficiary population but operating at a national policy/training level rather than direct service.

Regional players

• Chase Brexton Health Care: Chase Brexton is a Baltimore-based community health center with longstanding LGBTQ-affirming care programming — directly comparable geography and overlap on the 'health' pillar of Baltimore Safe Haven's integrated housing-health-community model.
• Health Care for the Homeless: Health Care for the Homeless is a Baltimore-based nonprofit providing integrated health, housing, and case management services to people experiencing homelessness — directly comparable geography, population, and integrated housing-plus-health service model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BaltimoreHaven
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/baltimore-safe-haven

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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