Maryland · Nonprofit
GIVING STRENGTH INC
GIVING STRENGTH INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,350 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($218,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $204k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $327k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Giving Strength Inc does
Mission
Giving strength is a non-profit organization dedicated to funding research grants while increasing awareness of selenon-related myopathy. Our dedicated team, composed of volunteers, research assistants, and collaborators is unwavering in its mission to advance research efforts toward the development of viable and safe treatments for selenon-rm.currently, giving strength is proud to support groundbreaking research at the beggs laboratory at boston children's hospital, university of paris, and istituto di ricerche farmacologiche mario negri, all of which are making significant strides in the field. Through these invaluable partnerships, our organization strives to deepen the understanding of selenon-related myopathy and contribute to the creation of innovative therapeutic solutions, ultimately seeking to improve the quality of life for those affected by this disorder.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Funding research grants and increasing awareness of selenon-related myopathy.
$123,188 spentof which $38,165 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $123,188.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $68k to $1.1M (+1548%).
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.
86% of GIVING STRENGTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Ronald Curley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 GIVING STRENGTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
GIVING STRENGTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 GIVING STRENGTH INC.
“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
85% of GIVING STRENGTH 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 $49k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GIVING STRENGTH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GIVING STRENGTH 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIVING STRENGTH 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 GIVING STRENGTH INC?
- GIVING STRENGTH INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,350 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($218,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIVING STRENGTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $327,350 in grants to GIVING STRENGTH INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIVING STRENGTH INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $218,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIVING STRENGTH 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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