Maryland · Nonprofit
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,847,184 to it, the largest being William E Seale Family Foundation ($1,896,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $59M
What St Mary's College of Maryland Foundation Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to initiate, cultivate and maintain strong lifelong relationships with alumni, friends and partners by creating a culture of giving, volunteer leadership and exemplary fiduciary responsibility toward the goal of a bright future as a preferred public liberal arts honors institution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
College department / division support - program and department support, including faculty initiatives, lecture series, conference registration fees, travel support, research, meeting supplies and refreshments, equipment, presentations, and film screenings. Programs and departments supported include library, educational studies, music, the sciences, career services, computer studies, and mathematics. Also, provide supplementary funding for the athletics department and athletic teams of st. Mary's college of maryland.
$2,851,093 spentof which $2,201,826 as grants$226,559 earned by the program73% of program spendingScholarship and awards support- provide scholarship and internship support, awards and research stipends to students of st. Mary's college of maryland. In fy25, 262 scholarships from 89 funds were awarded. There were 90 awards given to students, many at awards convocation honoring outstanding student achievements. 7 students were provided support to enable them to complete an internship, which provides an excellent setting for professional development, workplace discipline, subject specific job experience and networking opportunities. 10 students were awarded stipends to help with undergraduate research projects.
$1,036,199 spentof which $1,036,199 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,887,292.
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 2020 to 2021, from $42M to $51M (+21%).
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.
47% of ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Carolyn Curry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $218k → $412k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND 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
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 95% · 2019 88% · 2020 74% · 2021 36% · 2022 43% · 2023 56% — 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
67% of ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
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
95% of ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- St Mary's College of Maryland · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC?
- ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,847,184 to it, the largest being William E Seale Family Foundation ($1,896,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,847,184 in grants to ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC?
- William E Seale Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,896,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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