Maryland · Nonprofit
TOWELS FOR TEARS INC
TOWELS FOR TEARS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,589 to it, the largest being POWER FOR GOOD FOUNDATION ($21,370). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Towels for Tears Inc does
Mission
Support survivors of domestic violence, disasters and homelessness by providing comprehensive bed/bath hygiene packages. Prevent Hygiene Bullying in local Middle School students by providing individual sized hygiene products for immediate use.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Delivered hygiene packages and bedding to 133 individuals leaving homelessness, abuse or disaster loss. Created Care Closets with hygiene products students need in 3 Middle Schools to prevent hygiene bullying. Served over 600 students with a repeat rate of 47 percent.
$14,046 spentof which $14,244 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,046.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $40k to $32k (−21%).
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.
100% of TOWELS FOR TEARS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cheryl Cordero
Chief Executive Officer, President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $21k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 TOWELS FOR TEARS 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
TOWELS FOR TEARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
TOWELS FOR TEARS INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TOWELS FOR TEARS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like TOWELS FOR TEARS 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOWELS FOR TEARS 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 TOWELS FOR TEARS INC?
- TOWELS FOR TEARS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,589 to it, the largest being POWER FOR GOOD FOUNDATION ($21,370). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOWELS FOR TEARS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,589 in grants to TOWELS FOR TEARS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOWELS FOR TEARS INC?
- POWER FOR GOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOWELS FOR TEARS 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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