Maryland · Nonprofit
THE BE ORG INC
THE BE ORG INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,371,375 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($317,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $697k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $146k
What The Be Org Inc does
Mission
To encourage and nurture youth to live above their socially imposed limitations; to develop their character, talents and leadership skills allowing them to go beyond a dream and achieve remarkable excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Character education/stem programming - took place for over 130 students through continued relationships with the y of central md, moravia park elementary school and charles carrol barriester elementary school. Highlights of the program include using stem experiments to create modalities for emotional regulation and incorporating game play for more student engaged activity based learning.
Gea - girls empowerment academy, during our recent girls empowerment academy, girls participated in a trip to the new lexington market. This was an intentional opportunity for them to immerse themselves into the larger baltimore community and experience it through a new lens. The sessions prior to the visit were dedicated to preparation for the visit. These sessions included watching season 4 of the go daddy made in america series entitled made in baltimore. The series included a deep dive into the back stories, resilience, determination and enterpreneurial spirit of several baltimore based small businesses and owners. Gea culminated with a womens fireside chat focusing on local women leaders in baltimore and a charge to our girls to embrace their own leadership.
Be virtual - be. Virtual is the flagship program of the be org, bolstering support on both a local and national level. The overall growth of be virtual is our biggest success, within the past year. We have grown from only having a summer youth works partnership to two sessions of weekly after school programming at two separate sites. At connexions academy, cohort 1 students have increased the visibility and reputation within the school. The program has supported 65 students from west baltimore, md throughout the school year and summer.
$635,377 spent$696,639 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $635,377.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $212k (+291%).
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.
77% of THE BE ORG INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Tonee A Lawson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $5k → $426k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BE ORG 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 BE ORG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 THE BE ORG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 14% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of THE BE ORG 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. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE BE ORG INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BE ORG 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BE ORG 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 THE BE ORG INC?
- THE BE ORG INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,371,375 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($317,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BE ORG INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,371,375 in grants to THE BE ORG INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BE ORG INC?
- BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $317,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BE ORG 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 23 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