Maryland · Nonprofit
WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC
WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,034,914 to it, the largest being MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($741,271). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Wye River Upper School Inc does
Mission
An independent high school, serving maryland, delaware, and the district of columbia. Organization was founded based on a need to provide an appropriate academic setting for students with learning differences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Independent high school. Providing education to students grade 9 through 12.
$1,789,727 spentof which $292,900 as grants$1,838,113 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,789,727.
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 $6.9M to $6.3M (−8%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Nikki Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose $169k → $281k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL 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
WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 50% · 2019 43% · 2020 28% · 2021 28% · 2022 47% · 2023 57% — broadly stable.
“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
53% of WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
57% of WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL 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 $872k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL 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 WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC?
- WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,034,914 to it, the largest being MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($741,271). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,034,914 in grants to WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC?
- MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $741,271 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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