Grow Home

What Grow Home does

Grow Home Baltimore is a community-led nonprofit organization founded in 2012 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Its mission is to support community-led programs that cultivate open spaces, empower resident leaders, and give youth accessible opportunities for recreation and first-time employment, guided by stated ethics of equity and empowerment. Since founding, staff have helped residents clean up and become stewards of public parks and community gardens across Baltimore City neighborhoods from Curtis Bay to Leakin Park.

The organization operates an integrated portfolio of programs including Workforce Development, Community Revitalization (urban farming and transformation of under-used public spaces), Youth Sports & Recreation, Out-of-School Time Programming, the Sound of Silence community engagement initiative, Green Careers training, and Training Events. These programs are delivered directly to community members free of charge via in-person programming in parks and gardens. There is no proprietary technology platform, software product, or AI capability disclosed; the organization's digital footprint consists of a website, an email newsletter, and standard social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube).

Grow Home Baltimore is structured as a private nonprofit organization and does not generate commercial revenue. Its funding model is donations and fundraising from individuals, corporations, and foundations supporting its community programs. No parent company, subsidiaries, funding rounds, partnerships, leadership team, awards, patents, or regulatory actions are disclosed in the available source material, and no revenue figures, headcount, or donor composition data are available.

Name

Grow Home

Legal name

Grow Home

Website

https://growhomebaltimore.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Grow Home Baltimore is a community-led nonprofit founded in 2012 that transforms under-used public parks and gardens in Baltimore City into green centers for youth recreation, first-time employment, and resident leadership across neighborhoods from Curtis Bay to Leakin Park.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Development Services

NAICS

Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions (71219), Landscaping Services (561730)

SIC

Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Small Business & Entrepreneurship Community Education (EDAAAFAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Raised Garden Beds & Planter Box Installation (HSAIAFAK)

Keywords

• Community development services
• Workforce development training
• Youth recreation programs
• Urban gardening stewardship
• Nonprofit community services

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

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

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: The organization operates as a non-profit and raises funds through donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations to support community programs in open space cultivation, youth employment, and neighborhood revitalization.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Grow Home is a Baltimore-based nonprofit community organization founded in 2012 that delivers a portfolio of community-led programs to residents across Baltimore City, from Curtis Bay to Leakin Park. Its core offerings include Workforce Development, Community Revitalization (parks and gardens stewardship), Youth Sports & Recreation, Out-of-School Time Programming, Green Careers training, and community Training Events. Programming is offered free of charge to participants and is supported through donations and fundraising.

Product overview

Grow Home Baltimore is a community-led nonprofit organization that operates a portfolio of interconnected social programs focused on cultivating open spaces, empowering resident leaders, and providing youth opportunities for recreation and first-time employment. The organization offers a unified set of community services including Workforce Development, Community Revitalization (urban farming and green space transformation), Youth Sports & Recreation, Out-of-School Time Programming, Sound of Silence, Green Careers training, and Training Events. These programs work together to build stronger, healthier communities across Baltimore City neighborhoods from Curtis Bay to Leakin Park, guided by ethics of equity and empowerment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Workforce Development

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Groundwork USA: National network of local Trust for Public Land affiliates that pursue community-based environmental improvement, youth green jobs, and neighborhood revitalization — analogous programming model to Grow Home's green careers and community-led stewardship work.
• The Greening of Detroit: Detroit nonprofit focused on tree planting, urban farming, and community-based green space development — comparable urban-greening and community-engagement model applied in another post-industrial U.S. city.
• Civic Works: Baltimore-based community nonprofit operating workforce development, youth programs, and community revitalization initiatives — overlapping mission and city footprint with Grow Home's workforce development and community revitalization programs.
• Parks & People Foundation: Baltimore nonprofit focused on creating and stewarding parks and green spaces through community engagement — closely aligned with Grow Home's mission of turning under-used public spaces into community green centers.
• City Blossoms: Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that builds child- and youth-focused community gardens and green spaces — comparable in scope to Grow Home's community gardening, youth programs, and OST offerings.
• Baltimore Green Space: Baltimore nonprofit that stewards vacant lots and community green spaces through resident-led efforts — directly comparable to Grow Home's community gardening and open-space cultivation activities in Baltimore City.

Regional players

• Blue Water Baltimore: Baltimore nonprofit working on greening, water quality, and open-space stewardship — overlaps mission-wise with Grow Home's park revitalization and urban agriculture work but focuses more on watershed and tree canopy.
• Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Mid-Atlantic nonprofit that runs urban greening, garden tenders, and community horticulture programs in Philadelphia and beyond — comparable gardening and community greening emphasis but with a different regional anchor.

Broad incumbents

• Trust for Public Land: National nonprofit that creates parks and protects land in cities — adjacent mission to Grow Home's park stewardship and community revitalization, though operating at significantly larger scale and broader scope.
• GrowNYC: Long-established New York nonprofit operating community gardens, farmers markets, and green workforce programs — overlaps Grow Home's community gardens, urban farming, and green-careers programming on a larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@growhome6306
• Facebookfacebook.com/growhomeinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/grow-home-inc
• Instagraminstagram.com/growhomebaltimore
• Xx.com/growhomeinc1

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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