Maryland · Nonprofit
THE BANNER SCHOOL INC
THE BANNER SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,692 to it, the largest being Carver Foundation Inc ($66,080). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Ausherman Family Trustshared funderslocal
- 50can Incportfolio match
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $25k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 THE BANNER SCHOOL 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
THE BANNER SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 98% — 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
99% of THE BANNER SCHOOL 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. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ausherman Family Trustshared funderslocalMD · backs 80 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- 50can Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Education Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Education Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THE BANNER SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Grant$300k
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 THE BANNER SCHOOL 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BANNER SCHOOL 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.
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 THE BANNER SCHOOL INC?
- THE BANNER SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,692 to it, the largest being Carver Foundation Inc ($66,080). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BANNER SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $75,692 in grants to THE BANNER SCHOOL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BANNER SCHOOL INC?
- Carver Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $66,080 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BANNER SCHOOL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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