Maryland · Nonprofit
TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers
TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers (Maryland) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,177,861 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers does
Mission
To improve lives and expand possibilities for individuals with disabilities by providing educational, therapeutic and employment services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School - Enrollment of 161 students from pre-school to 12th grade. Enrollment of 63 students in summer programs. The school provides special education to children with moderate to severe learning disabilities.
$10,364,124 spentof which $640,341 as grants$12,074,347 earned by the program60% of program spendingOutcomes - Programs dedicated to improving the vocational independence for individuals with special needs and their families. Numbers served 477.
$2,582,597 spentof which $2,624 as grants$3,321,738 earned by the program15% of program spendingSpeech Therapy - Provides evaluation and therapeutic services to children and adults for a wide variety of communication problems and disorders. Numbers served 329.
$1,274,563 spentof which $335,869 as grants$1,142,400 earned by the program7% of program spendingEducational Testing and Tutoring - Provides diagnostic testing and tutoring individually tailored to pinpoint the specific strengths and needs of students who may have learning disabilities. Number served 343.
$1,179,600 spentof which $200,289 as grants$1,188,960 earned by the program7% of program spendingOccupational Therapy - Provides therapeutic and rehabilitation services to children across diverse diagnostic categories. Number served 320.
$1,066,679 spentof which $52,263 as grants$1,029,423 earned by the program6% of program spendingAudiology - Diagnostic and rehabilitative program providing comprehensive audiological services including hearing test, aural rehabilitation classes and hearing aid sales and fitting. Number served 621.
$595,121 spentof which $126,438 as grants$160,729 earned by the program3% of program spendingPublic Health Education - Dissemination of information to the public to inform, instruct and advocate educational and therapeutic care.
$206,151 spent1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,268,835.
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 $16M to $27M (+74%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Patricia Ritter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $29k → $101k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers’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
TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 53% · 2019 66% · 2020 55% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 45% — 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
36% of TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
63% of TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $412k on record.
- Grant$412k
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 TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers?
- TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers (Maryland) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,177,861 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,177,861 in grants to TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers?
- THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers 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 25 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