Maryland · Nonprofit
Court Watch Montgomery Inc
Court Watch Montgomery Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,840 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($114,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $322k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Court Watch Montgomery Inc does
Mission
To reduce intimate partner violence in maryland by ensuring that victims have access to responsive justice and vital services so that the violence can be stopped quickly and permanently.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Court Watch Montgomerys programmatic mission is having eyes on the court to gather data and record insights on the experience of domestic violence survivors in our court system. In 2025, Court Watch volunteers monitored 1680 domestic violence protective order hearings in Montgomery County courthouses. Four extensive initial training sessions for 29 new volunteers and ongoing education for established volunteers empowered 70 community members to monitor hearings and enter data. In 2025, volunteers donated approximately 4,500 hours in court and behind the scenes. Court Watch published a Staggered Exit Report, as we have each of the last few years. And our staff maintained regular communication with local and state court administrators as well as partner organizations to promptly flag issues and collaboratively resolve any problems to improve court processes and protect victims.
$99,774 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,774.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $89k to $107k (+20%).
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 24% · 2018 14% · 2019 26% · 2020 36% · 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Court Watch Montgomery Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $28k → $44k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Court Watch Montgomery 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
Court Watch Montgomery Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Court Watch Montgomery Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 97% · 2020 53% · 2021 60% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — 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
50% of Court Watch Montgomery Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
55% of Court Watch Montgomery 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 $145k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Court Watch Montgomery Inc has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Court Watch Montgomery 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.
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 Court Watch Montgomery 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 Court Watch Montgomery Inc?
- Court Watch Montgomery Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,840 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($114,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Court Watch Montgomery Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $321,840 in grants to Court Watch Montgomery Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Court Watch Montgomery Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $114,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Court Watch Montgomery 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 11 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