Maryland · Nonprofit
RAVENS FOUNDATION INC
RAVENS FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,500 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($379,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $612k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $425k
- Net assets
- $-115620
What Ravens Foundation Inc does
Mission
To improve, encourage and enable the healthy development of youth in the baltimore area and in other parts of the state of maryland through a focus on programs that address housing, hunger, education, athletics, and mentoring.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grants and scholarships: grants are awarded to charitable organizations in maryland through a variety of efforts, including its play 60 program which provides designated funds to encourage physical fitness and/or nutritional education among youth. The organization also funds league-wide programs to promote youth football, volunteerism, cancer awareness and military appreciation. Funds are provided annually to approved baltimore ravens' players' foundations, many of which operate programs in the local baltimore community. Scholarships are awarded to baltimore-area high school seniors pursuing higher education at a four-year institution. Multi-year grant funding is also provided to vetted non-profit organizations approved as the organization's charitable partners.
$630,296 spentof which $542,587 as grants$60,367 earned by the program73% of program spendingAnnual signature project: every year the organization funds a major signature project to impact the lives of residents, primarily youth, in the baltimore community. For the year ended december 31, 2024, the foundation renovated the historic samual coleridge-taylor elementary school #122 in baltimore city. Additionally, a neighborhood community center attached to the school underwent a complete transformation. Major components of the project included a updating classrooms, creating wellness spaces for teachers, refurbishing the school's gymnasium, outdoor landscaping, and space beautification on school grounds.
$228,472 spentof which $228,472 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $858,768.
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 2018 to 2019, from $933k to $366k (−61%).
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.
90% of RAVENS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% 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.
Board chair
Sashi Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RAVENS 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
RAVENS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 RAVENS FOUNDATION INC.
“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
RAVENS FOUNDATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
RAVENS FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $425k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RAVENS 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Baltimore Ravens Limited Partnership · partnership
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RAVENS FOUNDATION INC?
- RAVENS FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,500 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($379,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAVENS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $424,500 in grants to RAVENS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAVENS FOUNDATION INC?
- NFL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $379,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAVENS 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.
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 4 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