Maryland · Nonprofit
TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC
TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $424 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($389). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $786k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $424
- Net assets
- $657k
What Towercares Foundation Inc does
Mission
Towercares supports children in need as well as brave and heroic individuals and their families who have sacrificed while protecting our freedom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Towercares grants:grants to support charities that meet our mission: children in need and brave and heroic individuals and their families who have sacrificed while protecting our freedom. Provided university system of maryland foundation a $300,000 grant for establishing the towercares foundation scholarship for the umbc cyber scholars program. Towercares holds an annual golf tournament to benefit johns hopkinschildren's center to support pediatric care and research. In 2025towercares donated $72,420 of proceeds to the organization.
$998,688 spentof which $971,279 as grants82% of program spendingTowercares scholarship program:provided forty $5,000 scholarships to students pursuing stem studies as their college major to support our mission to assist children in need. $8,155 admin fees.
$208,155 spentof which $200,000 as grants17% of program spendingAngel program:provided eighteen individuals with $500-$1,000 holiday financial assistance grants to enlisted service members and military families in need at fort meade.
$11,000 spentof which $11,000 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,217,843.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $717k to $1.1M (+57%).
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.
99% of TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
R Allen Brisentine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $57 → $87.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 TOWERCARES FOUNDATION 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
TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of TOWERCARES FOUNDATION 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 $35 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $389 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
TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TOWERCARES FOUNDATION 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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tower Federal Credit Union · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOWERCARES FOUNDATION 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 TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC?
- TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $424 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($389). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $424 in grants to TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOWERCARES FOUNDATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOWERCARES FOUNDATION 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.
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 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