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TRACYS KIDS INC

TRACYS KIDS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,252,689 to it, the largest being Friedman Family Foundation ($160,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$387k
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$733k
19/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Tracys Kids Inc does

Mission

Tracy's Kids uses Art Therapy to help young cancer patients and their families cope with the emotional stress imposed by the disease and its treatment. Our work ranges from individual art therapy sessions with inpatients who may be confined to their rooms, to open studio sessions with outpatients who choose what projects to work on and share their experiences while they receive chemotherapy or other treatment. Tracy's Kids programs are provided free of charge to those we serve. Our gifted, compassionate, Masters-trained Art Therapists help kids and families develop strategies for coping with scary procedures, express the fears that might lead to nightmares and social isolation, and communicate with medical personnel.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In 2025, the Tracys Kids program at Children's National Hospital provided 1,489 art therapy sessions, serving 4,583 participants. Whether at bedside on the inpatient unit, in the bustling art room or with patient siblings during our Summer Sibling program, the Tracy's Kids art therapists meet young people where they are, transforming long hours hooked up to IV poles into creative fun and exploration.

    $225,373 spent
    58% of program spending
  2. In 2025, the Tracy's Kids program at New York Prebyterian Hospital completed 785 hours of art therapy for patients and families, serving 2,090 art therapy contacts. Our art therapist is a leader in the psychosocial support team. She has developed new ways of helping patients recognize milestones in treatment and extends our reach by supervising two art therapy graduate interns.

    $80,000 spent
    21% of program spending
  3. The Tracys Kids program at Sinai Children's Hospital in Baltimore led 1,400 art therapy sessions, serving some 1,900 contacts. The program is characterized by its multi-faceted structure. Daily art therapy sessions in the clinic and at bedside are augmented by a monthly support group for adolescents and young adults, a weekly Mindfulness Art Therapy Zoom-based group, individual art therapy sessions through the hospital's tele-health platform, and ongoing support for patients on long-term follow-up.

    $70,026 spent
    18% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $12,000 spentof which $472,319 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $387,399.

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 ($570k) Expenses 100 ($574k) Net assets 100 ($940k)2018 Revenue 212 ($1.2M) Expenses 111 ($637k) Net assets 156 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 192 ($1.1M) Expenses 140 ($804k) Net assets 189 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 101 ($575k) Expenses 125 ($717k) Net assets 179 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 98 ($557k) Expenses 123 ($704k) Net assets 160 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 62 ($351k) Expenses 127 ($729k) Net assets 129 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 55 ($316k) Expenses 122 ($703k) Net assets 87 ($822k)2024 Revenue 68 ($387k) Expenses 98 ($563k) Net assets 78 ($733k)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (98)Net assets (78)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 2017 to 2018, from $947k to $1.5M (+56%).

$947k
$1.5M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.2M
$929k
$733k
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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

95% of TRACYS KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$568k
’18
$292k
’19
−$142k
’20
−$147k
’21
−$377k
’22
−$387k
’23
−$176k
’24
2.6
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.

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Listed1111121312121212
Joined·+0+1+2+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0011000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $82k → $153k.

8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 TRACYS KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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

TRACYS KIDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

53% 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 TRACYS KIDS INC.

13%
largest funder
36%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 34% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.

“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

38% of TRACYS KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

TRACYS KIDS INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 12 states in all.

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

TRACYS KIDS INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−45% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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 TRACYS KIDS INC?
TRACYS KIDS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,252,689 to it, the largest being Friedman Family Foundation ($160,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRACYS KIDS INC have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,252,689 in grants to TRACYS KIDS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRACYS KIDS INC?
Friedman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRACYS KIDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 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