Maryland · Nonprofit
MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON FORREST FOUNDATION ($27,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- The Pauley Family Foundationshared funders
- Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohioportfolio match
- Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Melwood Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
“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
MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
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.
- The Pauley Family Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas J Bliffert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taylor Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cummings-Christensen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jennie H Olson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert J & Flora H Ellinger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wright-Hennepin Electric Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James P Verhalen Family Fdn Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Incportfolio 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.
Government funding MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $270k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$270k
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 MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Melwood Inc · exempt
- Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc · exempt
- Melwood Community Development Corporation · exempt
- Melwood & Eggleston Enterprises LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: 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 MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON FORREST FOUNDATION ($27,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,500 in grants to MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- WASHINGTON FORREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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