Maryland · Nonprofit
DENT EDUCATION INC
DENT EDUCATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,345,453 to it, the largest being FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ($858,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $692k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $239k
What Dent Education Inc does
Mission
the organization's mission is to promote equity by empowering under-resourced youth to discover & develop their innate creative potential to shape the world around them. it accomplishes its mission by running summer & after-school programs for baltimore city public school students. the topics are creative problem solving (design thinking), how to make & create products (digital fabrication, sewing, woodworking, graphic design), and entrepreneurship (in teams, students form ventures).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
ran a 5 week summer program called "bet on baltimore" that served 95 students across 6 program sites. students learned to build products & then launched ventures for the new products created. others applied creative problem solving and design thinking to better understand social issues in their community, prototype solutions and launched ventures to address the issues.
$277,248 spent45% of program spendingduring the school year the organization ran a multitude of after-school programs in which students continued their work, learning and ventures from the summer "bet on baltimore" program. the curriculum focused on design thinking, making and entrepreneurship.
$215,638 spent35% of program spendingduring the school year the organization ran a program called "made@dent" in which youth were paid hourly to design and create custom products to be sold to local organizations and individuals. students created custom nameplates, keychains and cards, learning how to build a business and create products at scale, all, while earning.
$61,611 spent10% of program spendingmatched youth to host organizations where they served as interns bringing their skills to solve challenges within the organizations under the "denternship" program.
$61,611 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $616,108.
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 2023 to 2024, from $104k to $251k (+141%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 11% · 2022 46% · 2023 58% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of DENT EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Matthew Wolf
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $50k → $464k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 DENT EDUCATION 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
DENT EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 DENT EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 31% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 68% · 2023 54% — 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
41% of DENT EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
95% of DENT EDUCATION 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. $541k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
DENT EDUCATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DENT EDUCATION 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 DENT EDUCATION 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 DENT EDUCATION INC?
- DENT EDUCATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,345,453 to it, the largest being FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ($858,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENT EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,345,453 in grants to DENT EDUCATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENT EDUCATION INC?
- FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $858,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENT EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 28 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