Maryland · Nonprofit
THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC
THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being THE NATHAN FOUNDATION INC IMA CO ROBERT S ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $15k
What The Friends of Stanley Institute Inc does
Mission
Raise funds to maintain an us historic landmark
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Maintain and upkeep of historic us landmark
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $51k to $30k (−41%).
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.
44% of THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE 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 FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE 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. 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 FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $447k on record.
- Grant$374k
- —$73k
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 FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC?
- THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being THE NATHAN FOUNDATION INC IMA CO ROBERT S ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,000 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE INC?
- THE NATHAN FOUNDATION INC IMA CO ROBERT S is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF STANLEY INSTITUTE 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.
Play a game about who funds Friends of Stanley Institute →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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