· Public charity
United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc
Connecting community members in dorchester, somerset, wicomico and worcester counties with direct and partner resources to strengthen health, education and financial security so all neighbors can thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $374k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAC INC | $127,958 |
| LIFE CRISIS CENTER | $42,667 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - SETON CENTER | $36,967 |
| DIAKONIA | $30,667 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - LOWER SHORE | $30,000 |
| EPOCH DREAM CENTER | $25,475 |
| HORIZONS DELMARVA | $22,200 |
| VILLAGE OF HOPE | $22,200 |
| CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION | $20,200 |
| DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $19,167 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS EASTERN SHORE | $18,333 |
| SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $18,308 |
| WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $17,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO | $17,167 |
| COASTAL HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE | $16,058 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MIMAC INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +14%
- DIDIAKONIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $434k · revenue +148%
- LCLIFE CRISIS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +19%
- DCDELMARVA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2023 · $11k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INCone grant, 2017 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide training and independent living skills to individuals with development disabilities so they may become as self-reliant as possible and lead more meaningful lives in the community.
Charles county freedom landing provides a range of services to assist adults with serious persistent emotional disorders.
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
To serve disabled adults by providing job and living skills
The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
Our mission is to provide services of the highest quality for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities and related disorders including autism that optimize each individual's independence and capabilities, ensure…
To enhance the quality of life for people in mental health recovery by providing individualized services and community based support while promoting dignity, health and wellness.
Hopeworks mission is to provide support and advocacy for people in howard county affected by sexual and intimate partner violence and engage the community in creating the change required for prevention.
To operate mental health, intellectual disability, and substance abuse programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delmarva Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Awaken Recovery Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAC INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DIAKONIA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVEN 21 INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Ministries ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS DELMARVA INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds It Takes A Village to Help Our Children Inc ↗
- Who funds TELAMON CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WICOMICO COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DOVE POINTE INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE STRIDES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds AWAKEN RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Salisbury Wicomico Economic Development Inc · Donnie Williams Foundation Inc · Richard a Henson Foundation Inc · The Philip & Barbara Long Family Foundation Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Jack P and Anne R Smith Foundation · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Synepuxent Post No 166 the American Legion Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mid Shore Community Mediation Center Inc — 63% of income from government
- Diakonia Inc — 51% of income from government
- It Takes a Village to Help Our Children Inc — 46% of income from government
- Life Crisis Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Bay Area Center for Independent Living Inc — 7% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.