Maryland · Nonprofit
EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC
EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,750 to it, the largest being SFW FOUNDATION ($190,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fordi Family Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Coastal Harvestportfolio match
- Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agricultureportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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: 2022 1% · 2023 32% · 2024 52% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $61k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FOOD LAB 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 FOOD LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“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
EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB 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. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Fordi Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Food Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brace Cove Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Virginia's Eastern Shore Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Advancement Foundation Internationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wholesome Wave Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whyhunger Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creative Visions Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fullerton Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC?
- EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,750 to it, the largest being SFW FOUNDATION ($190,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $274,750 in grants to EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB INC?
- SFW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing