Maryland · Nonprofit
MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION
MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,104 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($317,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Family League of Baltimore City Incshared funderslocal
- Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Incportfolio match
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $189k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION’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
MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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 MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 79% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Family League of Baltimore City Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 150 organizations near you
- Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wiessner Foundation for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- No Boundaries Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanangel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundationportfolio 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.
Organizations like MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION
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.
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 MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION: 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 MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION?
- MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,104 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($317,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $395,104 in grants to MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION?
- BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $317,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARCHING ELITE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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