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Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust

Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Maryland Society of Land Surveyors ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$54k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust does

Mission

To improve, promote and facilitate the advancement of the land surveying profession and the continuing education of surveyors. Create scholarships and loans to assist qualified and deserving individuals in obtaining education for a career in surveying.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Scholarships

    $11,250 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,250.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2018 Revenue 58 ($4k) Expenses 103 ($13k) Net assets 81 ($39k)2019 Revenue 299 ($22k) Expenses 108 ($14k) Net assets 101 ($49k)2020 Revenue 202 ($15k) Expenses 96 ($12k) Net assets 106 ($51k)2021 Expenses 73 ($9k) Net assets 86 ($42k)2022 Revenue 83 ($6k) Expenses 94 ($12k) Net assets 74 ($35k)2023 Revenue 654 ($48k) Expenses 111 ($14k) Net assets 142 ($69k)2024 Revenue 86 ($6k) Expenses 160 ($21k) Net assets 112 ($54k)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (160)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $35k to $69k (+94%).

$48k
$39k
$49k
$51k
$42k
$35k
$69k
$56k
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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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
−$9k
’18
$8k
’19
$2k
’20
−$9k
’21
−$6k
’22
$33k
’23
−$14k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

John Palatiello

Exec director

Board chair

Pat Simon

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15k to it.

Operating margin−231% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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In Virginia

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust?
Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Maryland Society of Land Surveyors ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust.
Who is the largest funder of Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust?
Maryland Society of Land Surveyors is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Maryland Society of Surveyors Educational Trust 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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