Maryland · Nonprofit
DAMASCUS HELP INC
DAMASCUS HELP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,969 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($62,564). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $271k
What Damascus Help Inc does
Mission
The purpose of this corporation is exclusively charitable, as the term used in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We provide assistance to needy persons and families in the upper portion of Montgomery County, MD and adjacent areas in the form of emergency food, holiday food baskets and gifts, transportation, furniture and emergency financial assistance. No one shall be denied service because of race, color, creed, age, sex, or marital status.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Financial assistance was given for prescriptions, rents, and utilities for a total of 70 families for a total of 236 people.
$26,246 spentof which $25,831 as grants49% of program spendingThere were 710 food deliveries for 2025 in the form of at least a three days' worth of groceries to help 191 families for a total of 708 people. There were 64 individuals given grocery store gift cards and 4 families given groceries for Thanksgiving food for a total of 38 individuals. At Christmas 7 families received grocery store gift cards and 1 family received groceries for a total of 27 individuals.
$26,348 spentof which $25,867 as grants49% of program spendingSeven people were given rides to medical appointments in 2025.
$415 spent1% of program spendingDonated furniture and household items were delivered to 10 people. Clothing vouchers to a local thrift store were given to 9 people of which one family was given a gift card to buy the children shoes.
$845 spentof which $430 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,854.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $209k to $229k (+10%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $7k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DAMASCUS HELP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
DAMASCUS HELP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 DAMASCUS HELP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
DAMASCUS HELP INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $705 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like DAMASCUS HELP 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAMASCUS HELP 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 DAMASCUS HELP INC?
- DAMASCUS HELP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,969 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($62,564). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAMASCUS HELP INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $73,969 in grants to DAMASCUS HELP INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAMASCUS HELP INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA is the largest funder on record, with $62,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAMASCUS HELP 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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