Maryland · Nonprofit
Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc
Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,017 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($395,810). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $454k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc does
Mission
To reverse the negative influences in the lives of those male youths placed in our care, providing each opportunity to achieve a meaningful and productive life. Also to reach intothe surrounding communities with adventure programs and christian-based radio broadcastingservices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the year the Organization provided 4,343 days of residential care, meeting the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual needs for 23 abused, abandoned, or neglected male youths placed in care by agencies of the State of Maryland.
$3,153,335 spent$3,885,290 earned by the program62% of program spendingDuring the year the Organizations special education school proved 3915 days of high-inentsity individualized schooling to 37 special needs students placed within the school by local Boards of Education from various jurisdictions within the State of Maryland.
$1,259,447 spent$1,428,028 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe Organizations radio broadcasting facilities operated for 365 days on a 24-hour basis providing contemporary christian music and programs of a spiritual, educational, and informational nature to listeners in the Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia quad state region.
$662,688 spent$853,433 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,075,470.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $4.8M (+27%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Paula Shatzer
Executive Director
Board chair
Darin Coon
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $58k → $513.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School 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
Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 83% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $31k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $423k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is 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.
Against its field
Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School 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 Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc?
- Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,017 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($395,810). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $454,017 in grants to Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $395,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cedar Ridge Children's Home and School 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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