Maryland · Nonprofit
MELWOOD INC
MELWOOD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being The Taishoff Family Foundation Inc ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $24M
What Melwood Inc does
Mission
Melwood Inc. Is a supporting organization established to operate exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of publicly supported charities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community 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.
$4,561,929 spentof which $3,795,000 as grants86% of program spendingEmployment 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.
$746,361 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,308,290.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
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.
57% of MELWOOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MELWOOD INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MELWOOD 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
MELWOOD INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MELWOOD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MELWOOD 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
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 53 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc (Melwood Enterprises) · exempt
- Melwood Community Development Corporation · exempt
- Melwood Community Services Inc · exempt
- Melwood & Eggleston Enterprises LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MELWOOD 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MELWOOD INC?
- MELWOOD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being The Taishoff Family Foundation Inc ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MELWOOD INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,000 in grants to MELWOOD INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MELWOOD INC?
- The Taishoff Family 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 MELWOOD 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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