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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
14/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    60% of program spending
  2. Outcomes - 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 program
    15% of program spending
  3. Speech 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 program
    7% of program spending
  4. Educational 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 program
    7% of program spending
  5. Occupational 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 program
    6% of program spending
  6. Audiology - 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 program
    3% of program spending
  7. Public Health Education - Dissemination of information to the public to inform, instruct and advocate educational and therapeutic care.

    $206,151 spent
    1% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,268,835.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($5.8M)2018 Revenue 133 ($16M) Expenses 109 ($13M) Net assets 154 ($8.9M)2019 Revenue 117 ($14M) Expenses 116 ($14M) Net assets 158 ($9.2M)2020 Revenue 128 ($16M) Expenses 122 ($15M) Net assets 172 ($10.0M)2021 Revenue 137 ($17M) Expenses 125 ($15M) Net assets 209 ($12M)2022 Revenue 133 ($16M) Expenses 127 ($15M) Net assets 210 ($12M)2023 Revenue 141 ($17M) Expenses 143 ($17M) Net assets 213 ($12M)2024 Revenue 149 ($18M) Expenses 155 ($19M) Net assets 204 ($12M)2025 Revenue 167 ($20M) Expenses 171 ($21M) Net assets 201 ($12M)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (171)Net assets (201)

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%).

$9.0M
$12M
$12M
$14M
$16M
$16M
$16M
$27M
$26M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

$145k
’17
$3.0M
’18
$230k
’19
$911k
’20
$1.7M
’21
$854k
’22
−$50k
’23
−$601k
’24
−$319k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

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Listed191924262624252024
Joined·+3+8+2+2+2+5+4+5
No longer listed·33024491
03Who funds it

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.

21%
largest funder
52%
top three
~9
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

WA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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.

State$412k
22
23
Top programs
  • 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 15%Fundraising 2%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MD

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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