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United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$566k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$4.1MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHealth$841kYouth Development$686kEducation$252kPublic Safety & Disaster$175kPhilanthropy$135kCrime & Legal$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $374k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
$17,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VILLAGE OF HOPE$22,200
HORIZONS DELMARVA$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%TELAMON CORPORATION: $11k → 8%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $57k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER ELEVEN 21: $42k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS - DELMARVA: $34k → 10%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $55k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $35k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS - DELMARVA: $29k → 10%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY: $51k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER ELEVEN 21: $33k → 13%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $62k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS - DELMARVA: $26k → 10%WORCESTER COUNTY YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $44k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $25k → 13%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA: $16k → 10%WORCESTER COUNTY YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $32k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $25k → 13%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $57k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA: $16k → 10%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $21k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $25k → 13%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $48k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA: $15k → 10%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $19k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $22k → 13%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $31k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA: $15k → 10%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $21k → 13%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA: $13k → 10%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $17k → 8%EPOCH DREAM CENTER: $19k → 13%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA: $12k → 10%DIAKONIA: $69k → 8%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 15%DIAKONIA: $68k → 8%DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $19k → 15%DIAKONIA: $68k → 8%DIAKONIA: $56k → 8%DIAKONIA: $38k → 8%DIAKONIA: $36k → 8%DIAKONIA: $35k → 8%DIAKONIA: $33k → 8%DIAKONIA: $31k → 8%TELAMON CORPORATION: $16k → 13%TELAMON CORPORATION: $13k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 38 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
3

Total granted

$7.3M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+19%

Still filing today

89%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    MAC INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +14%
  • DI
    DIAKONIA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $434k · revenue +148%
  • LC
    LIFE CRISIS CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • SS
    SALISBURY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +19%
  • DC
    DELMARVA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Diversified Services Inc

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.

Employment
2
Chesapeake Care Resources Inc

To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability

Health
3
Charles County Freedom Landing Inc

Charles county freedom landing provides a range of services to assist adults with serious persistent emotional disorders.

Health
4
Lifeworks Incorporated

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…

Human Services
5
Douglas County Developmental Achievement Center

To serve disabled adults by providing job and living skills

Human Services
6
Chesapeake Group Homes Inc

The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals

Human Services
7
Chesapeake Center Inc

The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.

Employment
8
Southern Maryland Center for Independent Living Inc

To provide services and advocacy to help empower persons with disabilities to lead self-directed, independent and productive lives in their community.

Human Services
9
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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10
Center for Social Change Inc

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…

International
11
Residential Care Services Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Independent Environments Inc

Comprehensive 24 hour residential and day service supports for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delmarva Community Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
32/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAC INCORPORATED: $1,480,321 · OtherMAC INCORPORATEDSALVATION ARMY: $524,250 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $444,305 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $114,883 · Other+11 more: $403,317 · Other+11 moreDIAKONIA INC: $433,915 · Human ServicesDIAKONIA INCLIFE CRISIS CENTER INC: $425,255 · Human ServicesLIFE CRISIS CENTER INCCOASTAL HOSPICE: $369,764 · Human ServicesCOASTAL HOSPICEDELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $351,471 · Human ServicesDELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INCWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $312,646 · Human ServicesWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING…ELEVEN 21 INC: $246,792 · Human ServicesELEVEN 21 INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $174,929 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Con…+4 more: $130,460 · Human Services+4 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $299,616 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC: $222,651 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $24,072 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,333 · Youth DevelopmentVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $238,963 · Housing & ShelterCHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC: $174,984 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC: $136,976 · Housing & ShelterSamaritan Ministries: $203,062 · PhilanthropySALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $134,555 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS DELMARVA INC: $197,151 · EducationWORCESTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC: $41,865 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $28,833 · EducationWICOMICO COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $24,724 · Education+1 more: $1,288 · EducationRECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $167,899 · HealthEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $81,744 · Health+1 more: $6,925 · Health
Other$2,967,076Human Services$2,445,232Youth Development$551,672Housing & Shelter$550,923Philanthropy$337,617Education$293,861Health$256,568

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAC INCORPORATED: $1,480,321 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetDIAKONIA INC: $433,915 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetLIFE CRISIS CENTER INC: $425,255 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetCOASTAL HOSPICE: $369,764 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetDELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $351,471 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $312,646 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $299,616 over 9y, 33% of budgetELEVEN 21 INC: $246,792 over 9y, 15% of budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $238,963 over 9y, 12% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC: $222,651 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSamaritan Ministries: $203,062 over 9y, 16% of budgetHORIZONS DELMARVA INC: $197,151 over 8y, 14% of budgetCHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC: $174,984 over 9y, 13% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $174,929 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $167,899 over 9y, 18% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC: $136,976 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetSALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $134,555 over 9y, 9.8% of budgetDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $114,883 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $81,744 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOR ALL SEASONS INC: $78,885 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBAY AREA CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $73,151 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER INC: $67,484 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $52,398 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIt Takes A Village to Help Our Children Inc: $45,743 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTELAMON CORPORATION: $45,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC: $41,865 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOWER SHORE ENTERPRISES: $32,268 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWICOMICO COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $24,724 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $24,072 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED: $10,793 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDOVE POINTE INC: $10,476 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE STRIDES INC: $9,832 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC: $8,583 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGARLAND HAYWARD YOUTH CENTER INC HAYWARD: $5,333 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSOMERSET COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,288 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Franklin P and Arthur…Salisbury Wicomico Ec…Donnie Williams Found…Richard a Henson Foun…The Philip & Barbara …Mid Shore Community F…Jack P and Anne R Smi…Humphreys Foundation …Delaware Community Fo…Synepuxent Post No 16…Joan W Jenkins Founda…
Community Foundation of the Eastern ShorMD67.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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