Maryland · Nonprofit
WE RISE
WE RISE (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,167 to it, the largest being PARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC ($299,167). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $760k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $524k
- Net assets
- $358k
What We Rise does
Mission
We Rise is devoted to the city of baltimore through the development and support of our young future leaders. We Rise is motivated and dedicated to providing community leadership and mentorship to future generations of baltimoreans. We Rise youth will participate in rebuilding vacant and dilapidated homes that is costing the city to keep these structures stabilized. In addition, the vacant houses are safety hazards and an eyesore to the community and the city. We Rise sees this as an opportunity to build permanence and self-sufficiency for families through affordable homeownership. In addition, We Rise will work towards eliminating blight and provide a path to building a better financial future in baltimore's inner-city communities through homeownership. We Rise youth work with program mentors to gain financial knowledge and independence while learning about the intricacies and processes of business, real estate, community development, leadership, and mentorship. We Rise
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We Rise partners with individuals, companies, organizations, educational institutions and community leaders in baltimore city, the great state of maryland, and to the ends of the earth, to help all build better neighborhoods in baltimore city. We Rise works with all stakeholders by connecting individuals with educational, business, and financial professionals and leaders. These connections present opportunities for individual growth. With community support, We Rise homeowners accomplish the education and confidence needed to create a holistic environment for themselves and for their families.
$391,387 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $391,387.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $230k to $476k (+107%).
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: 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WE RISE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Todd Scott
Executive director
Board chair
Martin Mccrae
Treasurer & board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $175k → $50k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 WE RISE’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
WE RISE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 WE RISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WE RISE's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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
WE RISE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WE RISE
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WE RISE: 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 WE RISE?
- WE RISE (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,167 to it, the largest being PARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC ($299,167). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WE RISE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $524,167 in grants to WE RISE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE RISE?
- PARK HEIGHTS RENAISSANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $299,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE RISE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing