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ProInspire

ProInspire (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,244,441 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$2.8M
16/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What ProInspire does

Mission

ProInspire activates leaders at all levels to accelerate equity at the individual, organizational, and systems levels.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Strengthening Organizations: Programming and services customized for organizations, focused on leadership, management, and organizational culture transformation to deeply align racial equity values and practices. It also includes partnerships with foundations to build the capacity of organizations, including team-based cohort programs.

    $669,677 spent$759,969 earned by the program
    43% of program spending
  2. Supporting Individuals: Programming and resources to support individuals focused on accelerating racial equity and leadership in the not-for-profit sector. This includes programs such as the ProInspire Leadership Institute, alumni engagement, and other virtual programs. This also includes partnerships with foundations to build the capacity of individuals through communities of practice, such as Catalyst Collective and the Fellowship for Liberated Futures.

    $600,769 spent$11,492 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  3. Influencing and Equipping the Sector: Programming and resources that influence the social sector to accelerate racial equity and leadership through research, convening, and collaboration. This includes the Self to Systems: Leading for Race Equity Impact publication, corresponding tools, and other thought leadership resources. This also includes research and partnerships across the sector and with foundations, such as the Brilliant Transformations report, the Thriving Leaders and Communities research, the Crises as a Catalyst workbooks and webinars, and the HERE to Listen tool and program.

    $303,100 spent$9,800 earned by the program
    19% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,573,546.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.7M) Expenses 170 ($2.1M) Net assets 76 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.7M) Expenses 171 ($2.1M) Net assets 47 ($736k)2020 Revenue 121 ($2.0M) Expenses 94 ($1.2M) Net assets 78 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 310 ($5.0M) Expenses 144 ($1.8M) Net assets 284 ($4.4M)2022 Revenue 160 ($2.6M) Expenses 176 ($2.2M) Net assets 307 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 177 ($2.9M) Expenses 226 ($2.8M) Net assets 311 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 155 ($2.5M) Expenses 266 ($3.3M) Net assets 261 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 64 ($1.0M) Expenses 184 ($2.3M) Net assets 182 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (184)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

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 $1.4M to $4.6M (+234%).

$1.6M
$1.2M
$829k
$1.4M
$4.6M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$4.2M
$2.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of ProInspire’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$372k
’17
−$367k
’18
−$449k
’19
$786k
’20
$3.2M
’21
$391k
’22
$50k
’23
−$791k
’24
−$1.2M
’25
1.2
months of
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

Bianca Anderson

Chief Executive Officer

Board chair

Raquel Gutierrez

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101112161418201711
Joined·+1+3+5+1+5+3+1+1
No longer listed·02131147
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.5M.

5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ProInspire’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

ProInspire has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

41% 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 ProInspire.

23%
largest funder
55%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 37% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 73% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% — 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

39% of ProInspire's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ProInspire draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 11 states in all.

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ProInspire's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−120% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 24%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 5 states

NY
CA
VA
MD
DC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ProInspire: 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 ProInspire?
ProInspire (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,244,441 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ProInspire have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $13,244,441 in grants to ProInspire, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ProInspire?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ProInspire 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing