Maryland · Nonprofit
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 INC ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BREAKING CHAINS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education 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.
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inclocalportfolio match
- Family League of Baltimore City Inclocalportfolio match
- Civic Works Inclocalportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of BREAKING CHAINS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Family League of Baltimore City Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 150 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Civic Works Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 71 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Associated Black Charities Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 70 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Civic Fund InclocalMD · funds 306 organizations near you
- No Boundaries Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deeper Life Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Corps Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arundel Community Development Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles County Charitable Trustportfolio 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 BREAKING CHAINS 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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREAKING CHAINS 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 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 INC ($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 INC 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.
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 2funders 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