Maryland · Nonprofit
HC DRUGFREE INC
HC DRUGFREE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,380 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($48,880). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HC DRUGFREE INC is better cushioned than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Howard County General Hospital Inclocalportfolio match
- Howard County Arts Councilshared funderslocal
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directorsdba Nastadportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 88% · 2018 92% · 2019 92% · 2020 87% · 2021 89% · 2022 80% · 2023 95% · 2024 85% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HC DRUGFREE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $49k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 HC DRUGFREE 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
HC DRUGFREE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HC DRUGFREE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of HC DRUGFREE 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 $48k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 210 organizations that share them.
- Howard County General Hospital Inclocalportfolio matchMD · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Howard County Arts Councilshared funderslocalMD · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directorsdba Nastadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council on Chemical Abuse Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Harm Reduction Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Harford County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope in the Hills Incorporated Healing Appalachiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Virginia First Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hanley Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bucks County Drug & Alcohol Commission Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AstraZeneca Foundation (fka AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 HC DRUGFREE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- Grant$55k
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 HC DRUGFREE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HC DRUGFREE 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.
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 HC DRUGFREE INC?
- HC DRUGFREE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,380 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($48,880). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HC DRUGFREE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $96,380 in grants to HC DRUGFREE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HC DRUGFREE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HC DRUGFREE 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 2funders 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