How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Maryland?

Start with the funders already giving to education in Maryland, currently Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maryland from out of state.

Who is the largest education funder in Maryland?

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc gives the most to education organizations in Maryland, $1.2B across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to education in Maryland?

$2.9B reached 777 education organizations in Maryland, from 2,649 funders. 14% came from funders also based in Maryland.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Maryland · Education

Who funds education in Maryland

Funding is concentrated: Johns Hopkins University alone draws 68% of every education grant dollar in Maryland. Most of it comes from outside Maryland: only 14% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$2.9B

granted

777

organizations

14%

from in-state

The short version

2,649 funders gave $2.9B to 777 education organizations in Maryland across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
14% of that came from funders also based in Maryland; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of education in Maryland is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, at $1.2B.
The education organization drawing the most is Johns Hopkins University, at $2.0B.

Largest funders of education in Maryland

The funders giving the most to education organizations in Maryland, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$1.2B 2Jewish Communal Fund$199M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$118M 4National Philanthropic Trust$117M 5Clark Charitable Foundation Inc$90M 6Gates Foundation$54M 7Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc$51M 8Silicon Valley Community Foundation$20M 9Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer$20M 10Johns Hopkins Hospital Endowment$19M

Education organizations in Maryland that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Johns Hopkins University$2.0B

767 other education organizations$501M

University of Maryland College Park$151M University of Maryland Baltimore$69M

How to find education funders in Maryland

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Start with the funders already active in Maryland
The funders giving the most to education in Maryland are Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing education checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the education organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
86% of education money in Maryland comes from funders elsewhere, so national education funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Maryland.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Maryland?: Start with the funders already giving to education in Maryland, currently Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maryland from out of state.
Who is the largest education funder in Maryland?: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc gives the most to education organizations in Maryland, $1.2B across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to education in Maryland?: $2.9B reached 777 education organizations in Maryland, from 2,649 funders. 14% came from funders also based in Maryland.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.