Maryland · Nonprofit
NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC
NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,651,526 to it, the largest being SUPERSTAR FOUNDATION INC ($705,672). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Next One Up Foundation Inc does
Mission
Next one up transforms the lives of young men in baltimore city by supporting and advancing their academic, athletic and social development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Next one up provides adaptive, multi-year support for young men from their teen years into the early years of a career. Middle and high school scholars receive intensive out-of-school-time, support, and mentoring that will help them graduate high school and matriculate to college. But support does not stop after high school graduation. College-goers receive ongoing mentoring and coaching, combined with summer work opportunities and internship placements. Others receive support and guidance to begin a career in the trades. Career programming, including counseling, skills development, and job placement, completes the connective process of generational change with a promise of upward mobility.
$1,418,882 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,418,882.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.7M to $8.8M (+88%).
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: 2019 17% · 2020 13% · 2021 18% · 2022 8% · 2023 26% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Matthew Hanna
Executive director
Board chair
Lou Kousouris
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $406k → $2.6M.
17 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
39% 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 NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 46% · 2019 24% · 2020 15% · 2021 44% · 2022 15% · 2023 10% — 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
54% of NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
86% of NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $481k on record.
- Grant$481k
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 NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION 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 NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC?
- NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,651,526 to it, the largest being SUPERSTAR FOUNDATION INC ($705,672). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $9,651,526 in grants to NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC?
- SUPERSTAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $705,672 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEXT ONE UP 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.
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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 90 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