Maryland · Nonprofit
CARINGMATTERS INC
CARINGMATTERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,909 to it, the largest being WOLPOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($140,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Caringmatters Inc does
Mission
Caringmatters provides social supports and community education so that no one dies or grieves alone. Our trained and screened volunteers provide compassionate support, without charge, to any montgomery county adult or child facing serious illness or grieving the loss of a loved one.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Volunteer helping hands is caringmatters' hospice support program that provides community-based social and emotional support, free of charge, to montgomery county residents with serious, life-limiting illness. These individuals are facing an acute decline in functioning or progression of disease and can benefit from extra support. Services include but are not limited to: companionship and emotional support, assistance with household tasks, respite care, patient advocacy, and limited transportation to medical appointments. While we do not provide medical services, we supplement medical hospice and also support patients who are still pursuing curative treatment. Justrides is a newer program that provides transportation to medical appointments for cancer patients, primarily those who are being treated at the aquilino cancer center or white oak cancer center, both part of adventist healthcare. Caregiver support includes support groups and 1:1 mentoring. These services are delivered by trained volunteers and offered both virtually and in-person.
$270,742 spent27% of program spendingCaringmatters' adult bereavement support groups are facilitated by trained volunteers, allowing participants to meet others who are also grieving, share their stories, and learn from one another. Groups are organized to bring together people grieving similar losses, such as spousal/partner loss, parent loss, or loss by suicide and are delivered virtually, in-person, and/or hybrid. Caringmatters' former caregivers retreat is for family/friend primary caregivers whose loved one has died within the past two years. This unique weekend retreat, offered free of charge, enables participants to connect with other former caregivers who have had similar experiences caring for seriously ill loved ones. Therapeutic group activities include grief support, commemoration of loved ones, self-care, relaxation, and strategies for refocusing on life post-caregiving and rebuilding one's identity.
$189,778 spent19% of program spendingGrief clubs are seven-week support groups designed to help children in grades k-12 explore their feelings, develop healthy coping strategies, and find comfort and safety in knowing that they are not alone. These groups are facilitated by trained caringmatters volunteers in partnership with montgomery county public schools, independent schools, and other community-based organizations. Camp erin montgomery county, held once a year, is an overnight weekend camp for grieving children, ages 6-17, that is part of a national network of camp erin programs. The camp offers age-appropriate discussions and creative, fun-filled activities designed to help children share their feelings with peers who have had similar experiences. Camp erin montgomery county is a partnership between caringmatters and bar-t, inc. Caringmatters' family nights are designed for families who have experienced the death of a loved one. Each workshop is held prior to a major holiday so families can learn coping skills, plan for how to handle celebrations, and mark the absence of their loved one. The program is virtual, via zoom, so families don't need to travel to gaithersburg.parenting while grieving is a virtual,…
$304,129 spent$100 earned by the program30% of program spendingCaringmatters' community education program works to raise awareness and support people as they address serious illness, end-of-life, caregiving, and grief-related issues. We hold workshops and film screenings and facilitate dialogue on relevant topics in the community.
$240,469 spent$586 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,005,118.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.9M to $5.0M (+28%).
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 2% · 2019 9% · 2020 5% · 2021 10% · 2022 20% · 2023 17% · 2024 18% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of CARINGMATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Allison Stearns
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Craig Rice
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $69k → $188k.
8 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 CARINGMATTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
CARINGMATTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% 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
36% 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 CARINGMATTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 18% · 2020 28% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 19% — 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
55% of CARINGMATTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
74% of CARINGMATTERS INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $466k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CARINGMATTERS INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CARINGMATTERS 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARINGMATTERS 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 CARINGMATTERS INC?
- CARINGMATTERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,909 to it, the largest being WOLPOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($140,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARINGMATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,447,909 in grants to CARINGMATTERS INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARINGMATTERS INC?
- WOLPOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARINGMATTERS 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 41 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing