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TIP ME FREDERICK INC

TIP ME FREDERICK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,170 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($65,923). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$259k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$159k
Net assets
$108k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Tip Me Frederick Inc does

Mission

Provide low cost spay/neuter for feral (community) cats and their caregivers in frederick county md as well as to educate the neighborhoods about the benefits of community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide low cost spay/neuter for feral (community) cats and their caregivers in frederick county md as well as to educate the neighborhoods about the benefits of community.

    $182,652 spent$6,676 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $182,652.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2018 Revenue 124 ($74k) Expenses 114 ($71k) Net assets 138 ($13k)2019 Revenue 137 ($82k) Expenses 123 ($77k) Net assets 192 ($19k)2020 Revenue 165 ($99k) Expenses 160 ($100k) Net assets 216 ($21k)2021 Revenue 258 ($155k) Expenses 186 ($116k) Net assets 637 ($62k)2022 Revenue 216 ($130k) Expenses 228 ($142k) Net assets 509 ($49k)2023 Revenue 214 ($128k) Expenses 244 ($152k) Net assets 262 ($25k)2024 Revenue 433 ($259k) Expenses 283 ($177k) Net assets 1116 ($108k)
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Revenue (433)Expenses (283)Net assets (1116)Peer revenue range

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 $25k to $108k (+325%).

$10k
$13k
$19k
$21k
$62k
$49k
$25k
$108k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of TIP ME FREDERICK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$4k
’18
$5k
’19
−$678
’20
$39k
’21
−$12k
’22
−$24k
’23
$83k
’24
7.0
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $27k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 TIP ME FREDERICK 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

TIP ME FREDERICK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 TIP ME FREDERICK INC.

41%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 93% · 2022 69% · 2023 38% — 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

50% of TIP ME FREDERICK INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

70% of TIP ME FREDERICK 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 $48k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states.

IL
MD
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TIP ME FREDERICK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like TIP ME FREDERICK 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 12%Fundraising 1%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TIP ME FREDERICK 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 TIP ME FREDERICK INC?
TIP ME FREDERICK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,170 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($65,923). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TIP ME FREDERICK INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $159,170 in grants to TIP ME FREDERICK INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIP ME FREDERICK INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $65,923 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIP ME FREDERICK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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