Maryland · Nonprofit
STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC
STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,441 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($58,441). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $370k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $165k
What Streetcar Suburbs Publishing Inc does
Mission
Publish and distribute free community newspapers and maintain an associated website to provide citizens with news and information and to build social capital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Streetcar Suburbs Publishing continued to publish for a fourth year The Laurel Independent, a free newspaper in and around the city of Laurel, Md. It had a circulation of 29,646, with almost all homes in the area receiving the paper through the mail. An additional 1,100 copies are mailed to businesses and organizations, and another 1,100 are placed in newsstands. Each newspaper edition contains a four-page newsletter prepared by the municipal government with important information for its residents. The newspaper won two editorial awards in the National Newspaper Association's annual editorial contest.
$120,011 spentof which $34,333 as grants$85,746 earned by the program42% of program spendingThe Hyattsville Life & Times continued in its 21st year of publishing a free monthly newspaper that was mailed to all 10,000 residences in Hyattsville, Md. It continued to carry a four-page newsletter in English and Spanish prepared by the municipal government with important information for its citizens. The Life & Times continued its tradition of strong reporting on local civic and environmental issues, and it won five awards in the National Newspaper Association's annual editorial contest.
$73,714 spentof which $7,333 as grants$90,731 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe College Park Here & Now continued into its sixth year of providing free monthly news and information by mailing its newspaper to almost all 9,000 residences in College Park, Md. It continued to carry a four-page newsletter prepared by the municipal government with important information for its citizens. The paper won two awards in the National Newspaper Association's annual editorial contest, as well as receiving an honorable mention for general excellence.
$73,713 spentof which $7,333 as grants$90,895 earned by the program26% of program spendingOur website, https://streetcarsuburbs.news, includes the contents of all three of our papers. We used a grant to redesign the website and add new functions, such as an event calendar. We publish a biweekly email newsletter alerting readers to stories posted on the site; the newsletter had 1,200 subscribers and 15,000 monthly users in FY 2025.
$21,347 spentof which $20,000 as grants$4,800 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,785.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $115k to $170k (+48%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 18% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Catharine Slack
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $19k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING 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
STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING 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 STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC?
- STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,441 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($58,441). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $86,441 in grants to STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING INC?
- THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,441 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STREETCAR SUBURBS PUBLISHING 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 3 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