Maryland · Nonprofit
EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC
EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,200 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $215k
What Eastern Shore Heritage Inc does
Mission
Conducted and support reseach and outreach projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Conducted and support reseach and outreach project. Continuation of mini-grant program.
$47,416 spentof which $121,770 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,416.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $133k to $216k (+62%).
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.
96% of EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Gail Owings
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $26k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HERITAGE 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 HERITAGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 HERITAGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 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
EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC draws 64% 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. $50 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.
Against its field
EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $370k on record.
- Grant$370k
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 HERITAGE 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.
Public support
99%
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 EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE 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 EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC?
- EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,200 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $45,200 in grants to EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE INC?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN SHORE HERITAGE 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 2018–2025), 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