Maryland · Nonprofit
ULMAN FOUNDATION INC
ULMAN FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,602,274 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($367,185). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 122
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Ulman Foundation Inc does
Mission
A leading voice in the young adult cancer movement, ulman foundation creates a community of support for young adults and their loved ones impacted by cancer. This is carried out through our four pillars of action: giving and getting support, raising awareness, inspiring movement, and driving change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ulman provides services directly to patients through their patient navigation and cancer to 5k programs. The patient navigation program helps young adults manage the special concerns and needs of being a young adult and dealing with cancer. Working in conjunction with medical care teams at institutions and within the community, ulman navigators provide a holistic approach to patient care, addressing various needs of young adults who face a cancer diagnosis, treatment, and life with cancer. Navigators provide tailored emotional, psychosocial, and practical support to young adults, and their loved ones, to help them recalibrate their life with cancer. The cancer to 5k program is a running support group that brings survivors together to connect and thrive as they train for a 5k race together with the support of coaches and support runners.
$1,117,978 spent62% of program spendingThrough ulman house, ulman foundation provides free temporary housing, community, and psycho-social supports to young adult cancer patients receiving life-saving treatment at cancer centers in baltimore. Baltimore is home to many world-class cancer treatment centers and offers treatment options that are not available in many communities. For patients from outside of the baltimore area seeking treatment at these facilities, the cost of temporary housing can be prohibitive. Ulman house offers a solution to this problem as well as a community to combat the isolation of cancer treatment and patient navigation services to address psycho-social needs.
$403,120 spent23% of program spendingUlman foundation uses peer-to-peer social engagement programs to connect young adults and their loved ones impacted by cancer and empower them to raise awareness and funds for ulman's mission through programs based in their personal and professional interests. Many of these programs are based in sport, including the 4k for cancer cross-country bike and run; the key to keys and point to point ride and run from baltimore to key west; as well as many other self-created sport-based challenges created by ulman supporters. The game changers young professionals recognition program provides an opportunity for young professionals in the baltimore area to connect, learn, and lead as they support ulman's mission.
$269,690 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,790,788.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $5.5M (+34%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2020 13% · 2021 8% · 2022 0% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ULMAN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Brock Yetso
CEO & president
Board chair
Trevor Garner
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $304k → $445k.
21 of 122 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 ULMAN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 122 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
ULMAN FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
46% 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 ULMAN FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 16% · 2019 26% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 48% · 2023 18% — 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
29% of ULMAN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
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
70% of ULMAN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
ULMAN FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ULMAN 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC?
- ULMAN FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,602,274 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($367,185). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ULMAN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 122 organizations giving $3,602,274 in grants to ULMAN FOUNDATION INC, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ULMAN FOUNDATION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $367,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ULMAN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 122 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