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DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC

DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,456 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,149). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$546k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$190k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Donate Life Maryland Inc does

Mission

To save and enhance lives by registering organ, eye, and tissue donors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide the following services: (1) establish, maintain and operate a statewide organ and tissue donor registry; and (2) sponsor public education programs to increase public awareness about the existence and purpose of the registry and the importance of organ, tissue, and eye donations.

    $467,934 spent$25,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $467,934.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($386k) Expenses 100 ($367k) Net assets 100 ($253k)2018 Revenue 105 ($404k) Expenses 108 ($397k) Net assets 103 ($261k)2019 Revenue 127 ($491k) Expenses 135 ($495k) Net assets 101 ($256k)2020 Revenue 113 ($436k) Expenses 111 ($407k) Net assets 112 ($285k)2021 Revenue 109 ($421k) Expenses 149 ($548k) Net assets 62 ($158k)2022 Revenue 115 ($442k) Expenses 117 ($429k) Net assets 67 ($171k)2023 Revenue 118 ($457k) Expenses 129 ($475k) Net assets 60 ($152k)2024 Revenue 114 ($438k) Expenses 119 ($437k) Net assets 60 ($153k)2025 Revenue 142 ($546k) Expenses 139 ($510k) Net assets 75 ($190k)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (139)Net assets (75)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $321k to $184k (−43%).

$312k
$281k
$270k
$321k
$184k
$189k
$195k
$201k
$226k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 88% · 2019 72% · 2020 93% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% · 2024 91% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$7k
’18
−$5k
’19
$29k
’20
−$127k
’21
$13k
’22
−$19k
’23
$1k
’24
$37k
’25
2.3
months of
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

Lisa Spicknall-Horner

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed4556799109
Joined·+3+1+1+1+3+0+2+2
No longer listed·21001013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $280.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 DONATE LIFE 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

DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65% 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 DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC.

54%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 55% · 2022 53% · 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.

Where its funders are

65% of DONATE LIFE MARYLAND 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 $4k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states.

MD
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DONATE LIFE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DONATE LIFE 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 DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC?
DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,456 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,149). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,456 in grants to DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DONATE LIFE MARYLAND INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $6,149 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DONATE LIFE 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 4 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