Maryland · Nonprofit
BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE
BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,291 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ($15,048). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,980 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,980 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Fund for Educational Excellence Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Family League of Baltimore City Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $10k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE’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
BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Fund for Educational Excellence Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMD · backs 77 organizations that share your funders · funds 223 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Family League of Baltimore City Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMD · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 175 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMD · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Golfers' Charitable Association Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of Towson-Timonium Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crane Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ravens Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Plank Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southway Builders Charitable Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 100 organizations near you
- Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
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 BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE
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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
17%
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 BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE: 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 BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE?
- BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,291 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ($15,048). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $48,291 in grants to BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE?
- THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUDDIES INC ELAINE WELKIE 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 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