Maryland · Nonprofit
Black Yield Institute Inc
Black Yield Institute Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,300 to it, the largest being FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $262k
What Black Yield Institute Inc does
Mission
Black Yield Institute provides services related to agriculture climate change and food insecurity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Black Yield Institute received nonprofit status in May 2025 back dated to October 30,2024. As a result most of the operations and expenses have not been captured for the organization in 2024. There have been no expenses a small amount of earned revenue from produce sales and one grant received during the 2024 year.
$0 spentof which $180,600 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of Black Yield Institute 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 Yield Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 Yield Institute Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
95% of Black Yield Institute 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. 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
Black Yield Institute Inc receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $325k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Black Yield Institute 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Black Yield Institute Inc?
- Black Yield Institute Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,300 to it, the largest being FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Black Yield Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $325,300 in grants to Black Yield Institute Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Yield Institute Inc?
- FRANCE-MERRICK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Yield Institute 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.
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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 4 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