Maryland · Nonprofit
Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation
Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation (Maryland) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,326,841 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($7,031,602). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation does
Mission
The believe in tomorrow children's foundation provides exceptional hospital and respite housing services to critically ill children and their families. We believe in keeping families together during a child's medical crisis, and that the gentle cadence of normal family.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Children's housing believe in tomorrow owns and operates seven respite housing properties: believe in tomorrow house by the sea, believe in tomorrow house by the sea ii, and believe in tomorrow house on the bay, all located in ocean city, maryland; believe in tomorrow house on fenwick island, located in fenwick island, delaware; believe in tomorrow house on wisp mountain and believe in tomorrow at deep creek lake, co-located in the wisp mountain resort in mchenry, maryland; and believe in tomorrow house at pinnacle falls, located just outside asheville, north carolina. The believe in tomorrow children's house at johns hopkins has been the cornerstone of believe in tomorrow's hospital housing program for over 30 years. It has provided an average of 2,000 individual overnight accommodations per month to families from every state in the u.s. And over 90 countries worldwide. Believe in tomorrow is proud to be building a brand new, state-of-the-art facility, located at 45 north wolfe street in baltimore, maryland. During construction, our hospital housing program remains active and committed to supporting families in their time of greatest need. Through our continued partnership with…
$1,678,959 spent$126,840 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,678,959.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $23M (+49%).
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: 2018 8% · 2019 0% · 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Maryanne Davis
CEO
Board chair
Richard E Mccready
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $68k → $272k.
18 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 funders by total. 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
Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 30% · 2019 55% · 2020 45% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
23% of Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states 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
Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation
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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Children's House at Johns Hopkins · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation: 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 Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation?
- Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation (Maryland) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,326,841 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($7,031,602). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $9,326,841 in grants to Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $7,031,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Believe In Tomorrow National Children's Foundation 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 80 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing