BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The taxpayer-backed Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF) says it has no documentation of the $7 million it was budgeted to send to Mayor Brandon Scott’s office this year to support summer youth and employment programs, according to a Spotlight on Maryland investigation.
BCYF is almost exclusively funded by taxpayer dollars guaranteed each year through the Baltimore City charter but operates as a nonprofit. The Baltimore City fiscal year 2026 budget, which was implemented in June, allocated $16 million taxpayer dollars to BCYF. Seven million of those tax dollars are budgeted to be sent by BCYF to the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED). The budget specifies that the BCYF money sent to MOED would be used to support YouthWorks and other programs for children.
City officials said in a June budget hearing for MOED that BCYF’s board voted in favor of sending money back to the city government. However, the city officials said that the BCYF board vote only approved a portion of the budgeted total, meaning an additional vote was needed…