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TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC

TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,051 to it, the largest being PHILIP E AND CAROLE R RATCLIFFE FOUNDATION INC ($202,404). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.4M
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$403k
Grants received
$386k
Net assets
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($93k)2018 Revenue 123 ($3.1M) Expenses 122 ($3.0M) Net assets 225 ($210k)2019 Revenue 119 ($3.0M) Expenses 120 ($2.9M) Net assets 283 ($263k)2020 Revenue 150 ($3.8M) Expenses 158 ($3.9M) Net assets 196 ($183k)2021 Revenue 152 ($3.8M) Expenses 155 ($3.8M) Net assets 223 ($207k)2022 Revenue 175 ($4.4M) Expenses 181 ($4.4M) Net assets 199 ($185k)2023 Revenue 194 ($4.9M) Expenses 198 ($4.9M) Net assets 225 ($209k)2024 Revenue 234 ($5.9M) Expenses 239 ($5.8M) Net assets 288 ($268k)2025 Revenue 253 ($6.4M) Expenses 256 ($6.3M) Net assets 414 ($386k)
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Revenue (253)Expenses (256)Net assets (414)Peer revenue range

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: 2017 6% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
17
$117k
18
$53k
19
$80k
20
$25k
21
$22k
22
$24k
23
$59k
24
$118k
25
1.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $33k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL 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

TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 82% · 2020 91% · 2021 87% · 2022 62% · 2023 77%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

50% of TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

93% of TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

CA
VA
MD

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. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $541k on record — $20k federal, $521k state.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$20k
State$521k
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Top programs
  • Grant$521k

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 TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC?
TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,051 to it, the largest being PHILIP E AND CAROLE R RATCLIFFE FOUNDATION INC ($202,404). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $403,051 in grants to TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC?
PHILIP E AND CAROLE R RATCLIFFE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $202,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL 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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing