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FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC

FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,649,399 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($2,824,392). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
197
Grants received
$44M
Net assets
$-217034
103/197 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Fusion Partnership Inc does

Mission

Community education, participatory grantmaking, activism and incubation services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Through Collaborative action, including fiscal sponsorship, Fusion Partnerships, Inc. works to be a catalyst for social justice and peace. Our vision for Baltimore is to ensure that all citizens have equitable access to resources and opportunities to thrive.

    $11,122,755 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,122,755.

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 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 156 ($6.5M) Expenses 132 ($5.5M) Net assets 175 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 191 ($8.0M) Expenses 216 ($9.0M) Net assets 111 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 373 ($16M) Expenses 264 ($11M) Net assets 426 ($6.4M)2021 Revenue 346 ($15M) Expenses 317 ($13M) Net assets 515 ($7.7M)2022 Revenue 400 ($17M) Expenses 399 ($17M) Net assets 533 ($8.0M)2023 Revenue 354 ($15M) Expenses 385 ($16M) Net assets 457 ($6.9M)2024 Revenue 275 ($12M) Expenses 313 ($13M) Net assets 359 ($5.4M)2025 Revenue 80 ($3.4M) Expenses 216 ($9.0M) Net assets -14 ($-217034)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (216)Net assets (-14)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 2024 to 2025, from $5.8M to $252k (−96%).

$1.8M
$2.8M
$1.9M
$7.3M
$8.2M
$9.0M
$7.3M
$5.8M
$252k
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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

82% of FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
’17
$1.1M
’18
−$956k
’19
$4.7M
’20
$1.3M
’21
$262k
’22
−$1.1M
’23
−$1.5M
’24
−$5.6M
’25
0.2
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

Ladon Love James

Partner executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed79711713141110
Joined·+4+1+4+1+7+6+0+0
No longer listed·23051531
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $769k → $7.1M.

30 of 197 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 FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 197 funders by total. 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

FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 6% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left

69% 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 FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC.

6%
largest funder
19%
top three
~35
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 30% · 2019 21% · 2020 16% · 2021 17% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% — 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.

How long its funders stay

36% of FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 21 states in all.

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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

FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC's funding base is broadening — from 26 funders to 71 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−166% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.

State$1.9M
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Top programs
  • Grant$1.9M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC?
FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,649,399 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($2,824,392). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC have?
IRS filings report 197 organizations giving $43,649,399 in grants to FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC, 103 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC?
Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,824,392 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FUSION 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.

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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 197 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