Maryland · Nonprofit
Pearl Foundation Inc
Pearl Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,869 to it, the largest being WINGSTOP CHARITIES ($19,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Pearl Foundation Inc does
Mission
Supports broad educational, charitable, and community service programs that uphold the mission and values of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated of the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Pearl Foundation supports programs that promotes student achievement, leadership development, and personal empowerment. Several of the programs equip high school students with skills in communication, financial literacy, and career readiness, to foster long-term economic stability. The organization also advances family and economic empowerment, environmental stewardship, and social justice. More than $150,000 scholarships was awarded to Howard County, MD high school seniors who are pursuing degrees in post-secondary education initiatives.
$250,805 spentof which $154,630 as grants95% of program spendingIn support of initiatives that strengthen families, promote economic advancement, and encourage civic and social responsibility; The Pearl Foundation awarded $12,000 to local organizations and six Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
$12,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $262,805.
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 2023 to 2024, from $169k to $71k (−58%).
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.
100% of Pearl Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Pearl Foundation 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
Pearl Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
100% 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 Pearl Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Pearl Foundation Inc draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Pearl Foundation Inc has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Pearl 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pearl 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 Pearl Foundation Inc?
- Pearl Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,869 to it, the largest being WINGSTOP CHARITIES ($19,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pearl Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,869 in grants to Pearl Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pearl Foundation Inc?
- WINGSTOP CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $19,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pearl 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 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