Maryland · Nonprofit
BACKBONE HOUSING INC
BACKBONE HOUSING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,184 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ($76,184). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BACKBONE HOUSING INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Center for Jewish Education Inclocal
- Leadingage Incportfolio match
- Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 84% · 2018 84% · 2019 80% · 2020 79% · 2021 80% · 2022 70% · 2023 68% · 2024 67% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of BACKBONE HOUSING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $57k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of BACKBONE HOUSING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of BACKBONE HOUSING INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Center for Jewish Education InclocalMD · funds 29 organizations near you
- Leadingage Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lillian R Wardman Irr Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Equity Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Housing Partnership Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends Foundation for the Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Friendly Inn Association of Baltimore City Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitts Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Care Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Umrc-Porter Hills Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BACKBONE HOUSING INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 39 related entities
- Abingdon Senior Housing Inc · exempt
- Aberdeen Senior Housing Inc · exempt
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc · exempt
- Catholic Charities Nursing Inc · exempt
- Cherry Hill Town Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACKBONE HOUSING INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BACKBONE HOUSING INC?
- BACKBONE HOUSING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,184 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ($76,184). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKBONE HOUSING INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $76,184 in grants to BACKBONE HOUSING INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKBONE HOUSING INC?
- ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $76,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKBONE HOUSING INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing