Maryland · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC
COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,022 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($83,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $811k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $493k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Council on Economic Education in Maryland Inc does
Mission
To improve economic and personal finance understanding among marylanders, especially children, so that they leave school prepared to make informed economic and personal finance decisions as consumers, savers, investors, workers and citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Services provided and payments to various educational institutions.
$644,318 spent$4,905 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $644,318.
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 $799k to $1.1M (+37%).
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 51% · 2018 60% · 2019 54% · 2020 54% · 2021 47% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% · 2024 29% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Michelle Coates
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $27k → $57k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND 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
COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
52% 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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 44% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 25% · 2022 48% · 2023 35% — 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
57% of COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
58% of COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k 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.
Organizations like COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND 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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC?
- COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,022 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($83,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $493,022 in grants to COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $83,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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