Maryland · Nonprofit
NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC)
NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC) (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,218 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GREETINGS FOUNDATION INC ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $439k
- Net assets
- $256k
What Nextup Inc (F/K/A Network of Executive Women Inc) does
Mission
Open to all genders, nextup provides leadership development, resources, and programming designed to create equitable opportunities for everyone, while acknowledging the unique barriers women continue to face.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
At nextup, we conduct all programs and employment practices in full compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Decisions regarding training, hiring, promotion, and compensation are made without regard to protected characteristics and are based solely on merit and qualifications. In 2025, nextup continued to build momentum in its mission to develop the next generation of leaders and foster inclusive workplace cultures that advance all people, including women, in business. Open to all genders, nextup delivers leadership development, resources, and programming designed to create equal opportunities for everyone, while acknowledging the unique barriers women continue to face. Highlights included hosting the nextup leadership summit--our largest annual gathering--which continued to bring together more than 1,000 attendees for immersive leadership development, networking, and career advancement opportunities. Nextup also advanced its executive engagement through the 2025 executive forum, convening senior leaders for a three-day experience focused on "vision + velocity" --a call for leaders to move boldly and inclusively to create lasting impact in a rapidly evolving business…
$7,454,087 spent$8,100,299 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,454,087.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.9M to $6.8M (+77%).
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: 2021 9% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC)’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Lisa Baird
President and CEO
Board chair
Dagmar Boggs
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $175k → $10k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN 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
NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 82% · 2022 73% · 2023 51% — 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
0% of NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC) draws 100% 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. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC)'s revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN 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 NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC)?
- NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC) (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,218 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GREETINGS FOUNDATION INC ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC) have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $439,218 in grants to NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC), 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC)?
- AMERICAN GREETINGS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN 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 12 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