Maryland · Nonprofit
OURSPACE WORLD INC
OURSPACE WORLD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,775 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($450,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $588k
What Ourspace World Inc does
Mission
We help systematically disadvantaged farmers, builders, healers, and educators attain sovereignty and sustainability through partnerships and wise resource acquisition and management. OurSpace World builds capacity and long-term community sustainability through supporting education and service to the land. We help support whole-person health, low-cost sustainable housing, education, and regenerative farm and land renewal practices through skills training and technical assistance. OurSpace World's fiscal sponsorship program provides management support to mission driven groups aligned with OurSpace World's program goals. OurSpace World manages project finances and provides administrative support for a variety of individual projects related to OurSpace World's mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Calabash: Fiscal Sponsorship. OSW's fiscal sponsorship program provides management support to mission driven groups aligned with OSW's vision and program goals. OSW manages project finance and provides administrative support for a variety of individual projects related to OSW's mission. Calabash trains technical assistance providers to support farmers with business planning and grant writing.
$709,866 spentof which $738,950 as grants$39,021 earned by the program49% of program spendingTUI: Community cooperative support. OSW supports the cooperative efforts of land and food centric enterprises and the workers involved. The organization supports the synergistic goals of different stakeholder groups by helping to coordinate shared labor, shared markets, and other resources that can be leveraged for broad community impact.
$612,855 spentof which $462,950 as grants$85,182 earned by the program42% of program spendingTeach 22: Education, skills building, and training for job and economic development. OSW's historical mission has been to build leadership within the community by teaching and training valuable skills to individuals in the community to support growth of whole-person health, sustainable housing, and education. OSW has added farming, natural building, and land management skills to this. The organization trains people in basic farming and construction of basic farm infrastructure every year. OSW's Teach 22: Journeys programming is designed to give students a break from technology and virtual learning by giving them hands-on learning enrichment in natural settings such as farms and parks. Camp EarthPact during the summer, and Earth School during the school year, are the branches of Teach 22 youth programming OSW is currently refining.
$126,966 spentof which $80,000 as grants$19,425 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,449,687.
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 $239k to $929k (+289%).
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 0% · 2021 53% · 2022 43% · 2023 37% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of OURSPACE WORLD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Adjoa Oriyomi
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $844k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 OURSPACE WORLD 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
OURSPACE WORLD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 OURSPACE WORLD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 53% · 2022 27% · 2023 53% — 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 OURSPACE WORLD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
OURSPACE WORLD INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
OURSPACE WORLD INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding OURSPACE WORLD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.0M on record — $13.0M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Agriculture$13.0M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k
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 OURSPACE WORLD 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OURSPACE WORLD 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 OURSPACE WORLD INC?
- OURSPACE WORLD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,775 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($450,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OURSPACE WORLD INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,285,775 in grants to OURSPACE WORLD INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OURSPACE WORLD INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OURSPACE WORLD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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