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BREAKING CHAINS INC

BREAKING CHAINS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,527 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$170k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$79k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Breaking Chains Inc does

Mission

Community- based programs that provide services to youth and adults in underserved communities and systems of Maryland

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To empower those, we serve to become the best version of themselves by providing mental health services that promote self- actualization and equip them with the tools to make better decisions.

    $11,955 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,955.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2024 Revenue 174 ($170k) Expenses 107 ($104k) Net assets 236 ($79k)
20232024
Revenue (174)Expenses (107)Net assets (236)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $34k to $96k (+184%).

$34k
$96k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BREAKING CHAINS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$202
’23
$66k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
'25*
total
$12k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BREAKING CHAINS 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

BREAKING CHAINS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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

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 BREAKING CHAINS INC.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

BREAKING CHAINS INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.

NY
MD

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BREAKING CHAINS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)74% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like BREAKING CHAINS INC

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

05Profile & governance

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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Questions and answers

Who funds BREAKING CHAINS INC?
BREAKING CHAINS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,527 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREAKING CHAINS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,527 in grants to BREAKING CHAINS INC.
Who is the largest funder of BREAKING CHAINS INC?
NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREAKING CHAINS 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 2023–2024), 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