Maryland · Nonprofit
BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC
BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,565 to it, the largest being MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Groundswell Fundshared funders
- Sistersong Incportfolio match
- In Our Own Voice National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agendaportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $60k → $33k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC’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
BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 42% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Groundswell Fundshared fundersCA · backs 115 organizations that share your funders
- Sistersong Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- In Our Own Voice National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agendaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Every Mother Countsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tikkun Olam Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- The Praxis Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary's Penceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wild Gifting Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Southern Communities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Vision Allianceportfolio 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 BLACK DOULA PROJECT 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.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK DOULA PROJECT 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 BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC?
- BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,565 to it, the largest being MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $192,565 in grants to BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK DOULA PROJECT INC?
- MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK DOULA PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing