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SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,147,012 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($5,125,878). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$7.4M
Revenue FY2025
158
Funders on record
$8.1M
Grants received
$8.7M
Net assets
78/158 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC's funding base is broadening — from 35 funders to 69 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($5.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 104 ($5.7M) Expenses 108 ($5.0M) Net assets 117 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 100 ($5.5M) Expenses 111 ($5.2M) Net assets 139 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 84 ($4.6M) Expenses 86 ($4.0M) Net assets 166 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 113 ($6.2M) Expenses 93 ($4.3M) Net assets 238 ($6.8M)2022 Revenue 128 ($7.0M) Expenses 123 ($5.7M) Net assets 260 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 128 ($7.0M) Expenses 137 ($6.4M) Net assets 292 ($8.3M)2024 Revenue 143 ($7.9M) Expenses 189 ($8.7M) Net assets 305 ($8.7M)2025 Revenue 133 ($7.4M) Expenses 188 ($8.7M) Net assets 306 ($8.7M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (188)Net assets (306)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 16% · 2020 13% · 2021 26% · 2022 22% · 2023 15% · 2024 18% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$883k
17
$738k
18
$356k
19
$631k
20
$1.9M
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$1.3M
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$677k
23
$846k
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$1.3M
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2.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $552k → $1.3M.

23 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)14% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 funders by total. 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC.

63%
largest funder
71%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 64% · 2019 65% · 2020 64% · 2021 75% · 2022 57% · 2023 63%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

38% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 27 states in all.

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FL

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 158 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.

State$4.8M
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Top programs
  • Grant$4.8M

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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 6%Fundraising 12%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,147,012 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($5,125,878). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC have?
IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $8,147,012 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,125,878 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 158funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing