Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,282 to it, the largest being FARM CREDIT FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCEMENT ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
The organization promotes the understanding and appreciation of the importance of agriculture in everyone's daily lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mobile science classrooms and maryland agriculture showcase - the labs go to elementary schools across the state and the showcase goes to fairs and festivals across the state.
$591,018 spent$664,172 earned by the program58% of program spendingSupporting agriculture in education at the secondary and postsecondary levels has helped fill a leadership and resource void within the maryland agriculture community. Three staff members work exclusively in this area of education and have helped grow programs frommiddle school to the university level. This includes two staff members who support the operations of ffa in maryland.
$369,060 spent$114,275 earned by the program36% of program spendingOther program activities include sponsoring various seminar/workshops, providing educators and others in the agricultural community an opportunity to better understand the agriculture industry and thereby promoting agriculture to children, adults, and businesses.
$53,045 spentof which $74,358 as grants$161,869 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,013,123.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.9M to $5.2M (+33%).
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 11% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 14% · 2022 22% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Susanne Richards
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $76k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
36% 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 MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
83% of MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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.
Organizations like MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,282 to it, the largest being FARM CREDIT FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCEMENT ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $181,282 in grants to MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- FARM CREDIT FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 13 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