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MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC

MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,160 to it, the largest being WILLIAM E CROSS FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$232k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$2.1M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Maryland School for the Deaf Foundation Inc does

Mission

The maryland school for the deaf foundation raises money to providescholarships and resources that enhance the education of msd students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We raised money to provide scholarships and resources that enhance the education of msd students. The foundation stimulated awareness about msd through community involvement while acting as a responsible solicitor and prudent manager of over $1,000,000 in assets created by charitable gifts, bequests and fundraising. We provided support directly to msd and support to sponsor msd students in various activities.

    $60,924 spentof which $31,903 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $60,924.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($123k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 125 ($154k) Expenses 133 ($131k) Net assets 99 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 126 ($155k) Expenses 104 ($103k) Net assets 105 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 77 ($95k) Expenses 87 ($86k) Net assets 108 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 135 ($167k) Expenses 70 ($70k) Net assets 128 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 99 ($123k) Expenses 48 ($47k) Net assets 113 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 45 ($55k) Expenses 96 ($95k) Net assets 116 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 158 ($195k) Expenses 81 ($80k) Net assets 126 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 188 ($232k) Expenses 89 ($89k) Net assets 141 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (89)Net assets (141)

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 $1.6M to $1.9M (+19%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. 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.

$24k
’17
$23k
’18
$52k
’19
$9k
’20
$97k
’21
$75k
’22
−$40k
’23
$114k
’24
$144k
’25
10
months of
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.

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Listed1313149898810
Joined·+2+3+1+0+2+0+2+4
No longer listed·22611122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $1k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF 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 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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

89% of MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

CA
MD
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC

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In Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

20%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC?
MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,160 to it, the largest being WILLIAM E CROSS FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $6,160 in grants to MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION INC?
WILLIAM E CROSS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF 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 4 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