Maryland · Nonprofit
ARI'S BEARS
ARI'S BEARS (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,076 to it, the largest being MARVIN H WEINER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Ari's Bears does
Mission
To provide children in hospitals with stuffed animals and raise funds for pediatric cancer research
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide grants for pediatric cancer research
$50,000 spent72% of program spendingDelivers brand new stuffed bears and smiles to children in hospitals
$16,819 spent24% of program spendingProvide scholarships to cancer survivor and/or sibling of a cancer survivor
$3,000 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,819.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $174 → $227.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARI'S BEARS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARI'S BEARS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ARI'S BEARS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARI'S BEARS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like ARI'S BEARS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARI'S BEARS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARI'S BEARS?
- ARI'S BEARS (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,076 to it, the largest being MARVIN H WEINER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARI'S BEARS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,076 in grants to ARI'S BEARS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARI'S BEARS?
- MARVIN H WEINER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARI'S BEARS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing