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EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC

EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$570k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center Inc does

Mission

To provide technical assistance, education, and access to capital services to individuals and small and mid-size businesses.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Managed a portfolio of loans to small businesses totaling approximately $500,000 at low interest rates to encourage and stimulate growth.

    $15,636 spent$18,497 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  2. Continued implementation of the f3 tech accelerator program, ag innovation center, and other training programs to provide technical assistance and business services to value-added producers.

    $1,027,336 spent$27,156 earned by the program
    99% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,042,972.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($315k) Net assets 100 ($152k)2018 Revenue 207 ($465k) Expenses 90 ($282k) Net assets 220 ($335k)2019 Revenue 190 ($428k) Expenses 153 ($483k) Net assets 184 ($279k)2020 Revenue 313 ($703k) Expenses 209 ($659k) Net assets 213 ($324k)2021 Revenue 237 ($533k) Expenses 196 ($617k) Net assets 158 ($240k)2022 Revenue 271 ($608k) Expenses 261 ($821k) Net assets 18 ($27k)2023 Revenue 394 ($885k) Expenses 245 ($772k) Net assets 164 ($249k)2024 Revenue 560 ($1.3M) Expenses 426 ($1.3M) Net assets 60 ($91k)2025 Revenue 870 ($2.0M) Expenses 448 ($1.4M) Net assets 375 ($570k)
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Revenue (870)Expenses (448)Net assets (375)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $2.0M (+80%).

$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 17% · 2019 18% · 2020 90% · 2021 59% · 2022 61% · 2023 74% · 2024 85% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$90k
’17
$183k
’18
−$55k
’19
$44k
’20
−$84k
’21
−$213k
’22
$113k
’23
−$83k
’24
$547k
’25
9.1
months of
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

Mike Thielke

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed66991010101010
Joined·+0+3+0+3+0+0+1+3
No longer listed·00020013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

68% 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 EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC.

43%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

65% of EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

VA
MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.6M on record — $9.3M federal, $355k state.

Federal$9.3M
grants $9.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$5.8M
  • Department of Agriculture$3.5M
State$355k
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By state
  • MD$354k
  • DE$1k

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 EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC?
EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,500 in grants to EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC?
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC find more funders?
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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 4 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