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Maryland State Education Association
The MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION empowers members to make a positive difference in their professional lives in order to elevate the quality of public education for all students.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $1,420,532 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,465,713 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,181 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $378k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $599k
- $250k+1 grant · $369k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $368,882 |
| TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY | $169,027 |
| PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY EDUCATORS' ASSOCIATION | $139,960 |
| TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY | $85,335 |
| HOWARD COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $74,338 |
| HARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $72,979 |
| MINORITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM | $57,300 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION | $37,050 |
| EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF ST MARY'S COUNTY | $32,305 |
| EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF CHARLES COUNTY | $29,222 |
| CALVERT ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT STAFF | $29,144 |
| CARROLL COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $28,246 |
| CALVERT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $25,485 |
| ALLEGANY COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $22,879 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION | $21,215 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +127%
- PGPRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY EDUCATORS' ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
- TATEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY MARYLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TATIDES ADVOCACYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +130%
- DADORCHESTER ADMINISTRATORS AND SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To improve work and related employment concerns of howard county public school educators.
The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.
Dissemination of information to members of association concerning education and employment - respresentation of dod teachers in labor disputes.
The Arlington Education Association represents the teachers of the Arlington School District.
Empower educators and promote professional rights, responsibilities, and practices to achieve excellence in public education. association activities are funded primarily by membership dues.
Serve as a collective bargaining unit for the fall river, massachusetts teachers.
Teacher representation
Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.
Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.
Contract negotiation for teachers
To represent members in relations with their employer, and to seek to be the exclusive representative of appropriate units of school employees in all matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee relations, including but…
As an affiliate with NEA, the Association is operated for the purpose of promoting the educational well-being of school children, protecting and promoting the welfare and economic viability of the teachers in their district, and providing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Association of St Mary's County and the most unlike its peers is Garrett Administrators and Supervisors Association Mseanea. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY EDUCATORS' ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HARFORD COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF CHARLES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK COUNTY TEACHERS ASSN OF MD INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF ST MARY'S COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds WICOMICO COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALVERT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT STAFF ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER EDUCATOR'S INC ATTN SUZANNE RUBINO ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Cty Teachers Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds SECRETARIES AND ASSISTANTS ASSOCIATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE MINORITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS OF BALTIMORE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Garrett County Education Associatio ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL SUPPORT EMPLOYEES INC ↗
- Who funds Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds GARRETT ADMINISTRATORS AND SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION MSEANEA ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNES COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Maryland State Education Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.