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First Generation College Bound Inc

First Generation College Bound Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,561 to it, the largest being EUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION ($451,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2025
16
Funders on record
$852k
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

Against its field

First Generation College Bound Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve13.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education 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 ($503k) Expenses 100 ($410k) Net assets 100 ($219k)2018 Revenue 172 ($865k) Expenses 207 ($847k) Net assets 108 ($237k)2019 Revenue 240 ($1.2M) Expenses 232 ($949k) Net assets 226 ($494k)2020 Revenue 225 ($1.1M) Expenses 251 ($1.0M) Net assets 320 ($700k)2021 Revenue 254 ($1.3M) Expenses 242 ($992k) Net assets 450 ($983k)2022 Revenue 260 ($1.3M) Expenses 263 ($1.1M) Net assets 555 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 385 ($1.9M) Expenses 313 ($1.3M) Net assets 853 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 359 ($1.8M) Expenses 377 ($1.5M) Net assets 973 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 326 ($1.6M) Expenses 432 ($1.8M) Net assets 915 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (326)Expenses (432)Net assets (915)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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 88% · 2019 74% · 2020 80% · 2021 64% · 2022 82% · 2023 43% · 2024 79% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of First Generation College Bound Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$93k
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$18k
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$257k
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$102k
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$283k
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$230k
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$653k
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$261k
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$127k
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $90k → $125k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 First Generation College Bound 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

First Generation College Bound Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

53%
largest funder
72%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 52% · 2019 71% · 2020 40% · 2021 49% · 2022 83% · 2023 60%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 First Generation College Bound Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

First Generation College Bound Inc draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.

MA
VA
MD
DC

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. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 16 funders put you under-funded 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 First Generation College Bound Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.

State$3.1M
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Top programs
  • Grant$3.1M

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 First Generation College Bound 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

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 12%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 First Generation College Bound 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 First Generation College Bound Inc?
First Generation College Bound Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,561 to it, the largest being EUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION ($451,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does First Generation College Bound Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $851,561 in grants to First Generation College Bound Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of First Generation College Bound Inc?
EUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $451,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like First Generation College Bound 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 16funders 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