Virginia · Nonprofit
MARCH OF DIMES INC
MARCH OF DIMES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1969 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,452,082 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,899,953). 1136 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85M
- Funders on record
- 1,969
- Grants received
- $88M
- Net assets
- $14M
What March of Dimes Inc does
Mission
See schedule omarch of dimes leads the fight for the health of all moms and babies. We provide research, education, advocacy, and programs to give every family the best possible start. Since 1938, we've built a successful legacy to support every pregnant person and every family.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community collaboration - see schedule ocommunity collaborationwe collaborated to rally over 700 partners in our mom and baby action network to address the most critical issues facing moms and babies.march of dimes reached nearly 7,400 professionals and more than 17,000 consumers, including directly educating 7,900 and distributing materials to over 9,300, through collective impact (ci), a model for solving complex social problems. Additionally, more than 22,000 individuals received a direct good or service such as basic needs items, blood pressure cuffs, and vitamins. Through march for babies, our flagship fundraiser, and year-round special events, we brought nearly 70,000 participants together and raised $45 million to improve mom and baby health.
$43,828,452 spentof which $1,597,109 as grants$34,683 earned by the program70% of program spendingResearch and medical support - see schedule oresearch and medical supportmarch of dimes launched the texas collaborative prematurity research center (prc), uniting two world-class institutions to rewrite the future of maternal and infant health. As one of our six prematurity research centers, the texas collaborative brings together cutting-edge technology with population health research to prevent and treat preterm birth: the university of texas medical branch at galveston's pregnancy-on-a-chip technology enables studying preterm birth in an in vitro model and acts as a testing system for ai-chosen drugs that may reverse preterm birth. The university of texas southwestern medical center in dallas began collecting data and learnings to develop tools to treat, predict, and prevent preterm birth. The march of dimes innovation fund added 1 new company to our portfolio: millie, a maternity clinic offering virtual and in-person care from pregnancy through postpartum, using a collaborative model that integrates ob-gyns and certified nurse-midwives. A follow-on investment was made in seven starling, the maternal mental health company that march of dimes first invested in 2024.we delivered…
$15,799,860 spentof which $5,361,345 as grants$6,834 earned by the program25% of program spendingPrograms, education, and advocacy - see schedule oeducation and advocacywe educated to raise awareness of the maternal and infant health crisis. Our 2025 march of dimes report card spotlighted the high preterm birth rate that earned the u.s. A d+ for the fourth year in a row, marking the longest stretch of the lowest grade in report card history. To ensure health professionals have the latest information to make informed decisions, we trained nearly 960,000 maternal and infant healthcare professionals, and our trusted content educated 15.4 million consumers on our website and through local outreach and campaigns, providing essential guidance to healthcare teams and families in 2025.and we advocated by raising our voices to champion real change. Thanks to our commitment, more than 65 bills were enacted or defeated. Our advocates engaged lawmakers in march for change in 14 states and washington, d.c. Approximately 1,500 advocates joined our march of dimes' advocacy network, taking over 8,000 actions, including writing letters to state and federal legislators.
$3,147,959 spentof which $60,000 as grants$67,695 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $62,776,271.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $88M to $72M (−18%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 10% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of MARCH OF DIMES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Cynthia H Rahman
President/CEO
Board chair
Ellen Kelsay
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 658 funders to 558 funders, grant income rose $8.5M → $11M.
121 of 1969 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 MARCH OF DIMES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1969 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
MARCH OF DIMES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 6% of grant income, and it takes 34 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 34 funders to its left
68% 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 MARCH OF DIMES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 24% · 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% — 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
33% of MARCH OF DIMES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
MARCH OF DIMES INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 51 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 35 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
MARCH OF DIMES INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARCH OF DIMES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record — $4.6M federal, $76k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.6M
- FL$46k
- NJ$25k
- VT$4k
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 MARCH OF DIMES 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 Virginia
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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Alverta Sechrist Perpetual Trust · corp_trust
- Margaret Weiler Perpetual Trust · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC?
- MARCH OF DIMES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1969 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,452,082 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,899,953). 1136 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARCH OF DIMES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1969 organizations giving $88,452,082 in grants to MARCH OF DIMES INC, 1136 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARCH OF DIMES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,899,953 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARCH OF DIMES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1969 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