How much does Maryland State Education Association give?

Maryland State Education Association reported 37 itemized grants totaling $1,420,532, out of $1,465,713 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Maryland State Education Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Membership Benefit (44%), Education (30%), Employment (23%).

Who are Maryland State Education Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Montgomery County Education Association ($2.8M), Prince George's County Educators' Association Inc ($1.3M), Teachers Association of Baltimore County Maryland Inc ($1.3M).

Does Maryland State Education Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Maryland State Education Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Education Association of the United States.

Where is Maryland State Education Association based?

Maryland State Education Association is based in MD.

Maryland State Education Association

Maryland State Education Association at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$369k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Membership Benefit$4.3MEducation$2.9MEmployment$2.2MPublic Benefit$226kEnvironment$92kCrime & Legal$30kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 37 grants below total $1,420,532, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,465,713 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,181 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $75k
$10k–50k19 grants · $378k
$50k–250k6 grants · $599k
$250k+1 grant · $369k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$59M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.8M · 40 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.8M

$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+130%

Still filing today

53%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EmploymentEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MC
MONTGOMERY COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +127%
PG
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY EDUCATORS' ASSOCIATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
TA
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY MARYLAND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +12%

Funded once

TA
TIDES ADVOCACYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +130%
DA
DORCHESTER ADMINISTRATORS AND SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2020 · $6k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Howard County Education Association

To improve work and related employment concerns of howard county public school educators.

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Connecticut Education Association

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.

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Federal Education Association Europe

Dissemination of information to members of association concerning education and employment - respresentation of dod teachers in labor disputes.

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Arlington Education Association Arlington School District No 16

The Arlington Education Association represents the teachers of the Arlington School District.

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Jefferson County Education Association

Empower educators and promote professional rights, responsibilities, and practices to achieve excellence in public education. association activities are funded primarily by membership dues.

Employment

Fall River Educators' Association Inc

Serve as a collective bargaining unit for the fall river, massachusetts teachers.

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Columbus Education Association

Teacher representation

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Connecticut Education Association

Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.

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Florida Education Association Putnam Federation of Teachers/United

Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.

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California Teachers Association

Contract negotiation for teachers

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San Diego Education Association

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…

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Matanuska-Susitna Education Association

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Association of St Mary's County; 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.

04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/26

Grantees still filing

16/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,310,269Employment$413,394Education$114,059Public Safety & Disaster$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Education Association of the United StatesDC17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maryland State Education Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maryland State Education Association. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home