Maryland · Nonprofit
MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC
MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,214,514 to it, the largest being RESOURCE CONNECTIONS INC ($655,061). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc does
Mission
To advocate for and empower people with disabilities by expanding opportunities to work and thrive in the community and to perform such other educational and charitable activities as may be necessary and appropriate in order to accomplish the foregoing purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the fiscal year of july 2024 to june 2025, community service programs were moved to melwood community services, a related organization, beginning january 2025. Community services includes day habilitation, recreational and therapeutic services, and support employment services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Employment services:contract services fulfills melwood's mission by employing hundreds of people with disabilities in over 70 different federal and local government sites throughout the dc region. In these inclusive work settings, people earn living wages, have health insurance and pay taxes to be fully contributing members of their communities. Contract services generate a margin that enables melwood to support the workers with disabilities and invest in further opportunities for employment.
$104,685,218 spentof which $4,440,658 as grants$111,332,585 earned by the program91% of program spendingCommunity services:provides supportive services in community and facility based settings with an emphasis on maximizing community integration. Community services supported people with disabilities in supported employment, personal support, day habilitation, or professional development training. All services are designed to enable people with disabilities to maximize their independence and inclusion within the community.
$8,707,460 spent$12,551,587 earned by the program8% of program spendingTherapeutic/recreational services:provides opportunities for people to camp, travel, or retreat. Camp accomplish provides quality inclusive camping experiences for campers with and without disabilities in day and residential camp settings. Access adventures is melwood's respite program designed for people with disabilities who are 18 years old or older. The recreation center is a 108-acre property in a country setting that supports events and retreats for groups of all sizes.
$1,394,181 spent$246,113 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,786,859.
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 2024 to 2025, from $77M to $59M (−23%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% 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
Larysa M Kautz
President & CEO
Board chair
Brad Spencer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $36k → $963k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
89% 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 MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 83% · 2019 79% · 2020 56% · 2021 42% · 2022 23% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $721k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $790.0M on record — $789.5M federal, $459k state.
- Department of Defense$447.1M
- Department of Justice$84.0M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$64.0M
- Department of Agriculture$58.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$32.7M
- General Services Administration$30.1M
- Grant$459k
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 HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 43 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Melwood Veterans Services LLC · disregarded
- Melwood Community Development Corporation · exempt
- Melwood Community Services Inc · exempt
- Melwood Inc · exempt
- Melwood & Eggleston Enterprises LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC?
- MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,214,514 to it, the largest being RESOURCE CONNECTIONS INC ($655,061). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,214,514 in grants to MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC?
- RESOURCE CONNECTIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $655,061 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER 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 31 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