Maryland · Nonprofit
YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC
YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,189,809 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($774,667). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy 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.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared funders
- Tee It Up for the Troops Incportfolio match
- Fisher House Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $357k → $960k.
21 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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
YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
62% 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 YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 16% · 2019 19% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% — 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
35% of YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
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 124 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared fundersDC · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Tee It Up for the Troops Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fisher House Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Special Operations Care Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Infinite Hero Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brcc Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Angry Vet Gamingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled Veterans National Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Venable Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundationshared fundersDC · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
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 YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $12k
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 YELLOW RIBBON FUND 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YELLOW RIBBON FUND 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.
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 YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC?
- YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,189,809 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($774,667). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $5,189,809 in grants to YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $774,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOW RIBBON FUND 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 124funders 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