Maryland · Nonprofit
COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION
COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,123,162 to it, the largest being THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES FOUNDATION INC ($2,609,636). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Collegebound Foundation does
Mission
Collegebound empowers baltimore city schools' students to successfully pursue and complete a college degree or other post-secondary options. As a trusted advocate for city-wide college access, retention, and graduation, we provide advising, financial guidance, scholarships and other resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To encourage and enable baltimore city public school students to pursue a postsecondary education by providing counseling through its college advising program and financial resources, providing scholarships and last dollar grant awards to students.
$7,791,996 spentof which $2,078,270 as grants$1,310,710 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,791,996.
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.
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 $40M to $57M (+42%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 21% · 2019 32% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% · 2024 11% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Catherine Motz
Executive director
Board chair
Alicia Wilson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $480k → $1.2M.
13 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Baltimore Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 funders by total. 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
COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 55% · 2019 49% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 70% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“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
52% of COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
92% of COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $670k on record.
- Grant$670k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: 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 COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION?
- COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,123,162 to it, the largest being THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES FOUNDATION INC ($2,609,636). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $13,123,162 in grants to COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION?
- THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,609,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 81 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing