Maryland · Nonprofit
QM QUALITY MATTERS INC
QM QUALITY MATTERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,017 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($35,017). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Qm Quality Matters Inc does
Mission
To promote and improve the quality of online education and student learning through: 1. Development of research-supported, best (continued on schedule o) practice-based quality standards and appropriate evaluation tools and procedures. 2. Recognition as experts in online education quality assurance and evaluation.3. Fostering institutional acceptance and integration of qm standards and processes into organizational improvement efforts focused on improving the quality of online education.4. Provision of faculty development training in the use of qm rubric(s) and other quality practices to improve the quality of online/hybrid courses.5. Provision of quality assurance through the recognition of quality in online education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
With 1,894 cumulative members served from january 1, 2025, to december 31, 2025, and ranging from four-year colleges and universities to technical and community colleges to other academic organizations, quality matters is the leading provider of tools and processes used to evaluate quality in course design. It accomplishes this through:- access to the quality matters fully-annotated higher education rubric- access to web-based automated rubric tools, for informal unofficial/internal/self course reviews for the development and improvement of online or blended courses(continued on schedule o)- discounts on qm professional development, official qm-managed course reviews, conferences, and events- complimentary seats in the "self-paced" qm coordinator training (qmct)- ability to create myqm accounts which gives all faculty and staff access to our tools and resources and their personal qm activity, including certificates of training and/or course certification- access to reporting tools through myqm- access to my custom review tool which allows an organization to develop their own rubric- access to communication tools to send customized emails to specific individuals, role holders or…
$5,895,793 spent$5,672,681 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,895,793.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.0M to $7.3M (+79%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of QM QUALITY MATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Deborah Adair
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mj Bishop
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $305k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Marylandonline Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money QM QUALITY MATTERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of QM QUALITY MATTERS 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.
Against its field
QM QUALITY MATTERS INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding QM QUALITY MATTERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- MA$18k
- OK$2k
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 QM QUALITY MATTERS 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 QM QUALITY MATTERS 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 QM QUALITY MATTERS INC?
- QM QUALITY MATTERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,017 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($35,017). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QM QUALITY MATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,017 in grants to QM QUALITY MATTERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QM QUALITY MATTERS INC?
- MASTERCARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QM QUALITY MATTERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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