Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,306,536 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,509,150). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Maryland Family Network Inc does
Mission
Maryland family network (mfn) ensures that young child have strong families, quality learning environments, and a champion for their interests. Mfn's goal is to enhance and expand community based efforts that support families and childcare providers who are responsible for the care, development, and education of very young children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Strong families- mfn's family support and early head start centers in local communities help children learn and help parents earn. The network of 18 family support and 19 early head start centers served over 1,399 children ages ranging from infant to three years old and supported over 2,065 parents and pregnant women in reaching their greatest potential through peer-to-peer learning opportunities and by finishing their education, acquiring job readiness skills, building social network, and improving parenting skills.
$22,134,408 spentof which $19,558,737 as grants$187,343 earned by the program66% of program spendingQuality learning environments- mfn's child care resource network centers support childcare professionals through training and building capacity for providing quality care. Child care resource centers conducted 914 training workshops, 2,058 hours of technical assistance, and 3,000 hours of professional development in the field of childcare to over 15,000 participants. Locate: child care service helps families recognize quality and find childcare to meet their needs. Through telephone referral services and on-line searches, locate: child care helped families find care for over 1,146 children.
$10,420,045 spentof which $6,833,978 as grants31% of program spendingA champion for their interests- with strong advocacy and public policy presence at the local, state, and federal levels, mfn leads thecharge for very young children and all those concerned with their well-being. After years of work, maryland became the tenth state (plus the district of columbia) to establish paid family and medical leave through the "time to care act of 2022; this will provide partial wage replacement for families taking time away from their jobs to care for loved ones. Another eight pieces of legislation that focused on the needs of young children, their families, and childcare providers also won passage in 2022.
$862,134 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,416,587.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $19M (+40%).
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 94% · 2018 96% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 95% · 2023 88% · 2024 96% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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
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
Laura Weeldreyer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $231k → $3.4M.
11 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FAMILY NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
53% 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 FAMILY NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 33% · 2019 21% · 2020 38% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $257.5M on record — $160.3M federal, $97.1M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$159.7M
- Small Business Administration$632k
- Grant$97.1M
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 MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK 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
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC?
- MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,306,536 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,509,150). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $10,306,536 in grants to MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,509,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK 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 57 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