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DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC

DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,102,985 to it, the largest being Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc ($1,161,671). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2025
20
Funders on record
$3.1M
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%

Against its field

DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC has grown faster than half of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($333k)2018 Revenue 118 ($1.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 154 ($512k)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.3M) Expenses 123 ($1.3M) Net assets 154 ($514k)2020 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 113 ($1.2M) Net assets 140 ($468k)2021 Revenue 124 ($1.3M) Expenses 131 ($1.4M) Net assets 141 ($469k)2022 Revenue 177 ($1.9M) Expenses 154 ($1.6M) Net assets 220 ($733k)2023 Revenue 200 ($2.1M) Expenses 189 ($1.9M) Net assets 281 ($936k)2024 Revenue 197 ($2.1M) Expenses 199 ($2.1M) Net assets 302 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 215 ($2.3M) Expenses 210 ($2.2M) Net assets 343 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (210)Net assets (343)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% · 2024 28% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,406 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
17
$177k
18
$11k
19
$48k
20
$30k
21
$299k
22
$185k
23
$38k
24
$118k
25
3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $81k → $452k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)31% 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 DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP 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

DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC.

37%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 69% · 2019 48% · 2020 40% · 2021 31% · 2022 44% · 2023 46%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

64% of DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

NY
CT
VA
MD
FL

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. $959k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.

Federal$40k
grants $40kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$40k

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 DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & 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 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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 DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC?
DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,102,985 to it, the largest being Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc ($1,161,671). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,102,985 in grants to DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC?
Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,161,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP 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.

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 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing