Maryland · Nonprofit
EMPOWERING THE AGES INC
EMPOWERING THE AGES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $848,724 to it, the largest being AW Baldwin Charitable Foundation Inc ($420,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $276k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $849k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Empowering the Ages Inc does
Mission
Empowering the Ages strengthens social-emotional well-being, provides life skills, and creates connections across generations to provide older and younger people with a sense of belonging and purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Connections program paired 19 volunteers with 19 pre-Kindergarten and Head Start students and their families to connect weekly to focus on early literacy skills, school readiness and additional needed support. Additionally, 17 volunteers transitioned to Kindergarten with their pre-Kindergarten and Head Start students and families from the 2024-2025 school year. These volunteers continued to work with students and families weekly and ETA held a Connections graduation for the students in June 2025.
$77,339 spent$24,900 earned by the program62% of program spendingCommunity Engagement activities spanned multiple topics in various settings. The Crossing Path program consisted of 2 multi-week conversation groups between 8 active older adults and 32 high school students. The Wellness Groups included 79 adults discussing topics ranging from grandchildren to medical challenges. There were 7 Sharing Smiles concerts by 14 youth musicians that took place in 3 older adult living communities. 180 individuals and older adult living communities receive a weekly motivational quote sent by 3 teenagers. 2 volunteers supported 7 youth with mentoring as they transitioned to a new phase of young adulthood. 29 high school students supported 40 adults individually with technology. 5 adults and their grandchildren or mentees attended a summer day camp. Developed an intergenerational program activity handbook for a child day and adult day care joint facility.
$22,490 spent$24,764 earned by the program18% of program spendingWorkforce Development programs were held with middle school, high school and college students. At the middle school and high school levels, ETA engaged 16 older adult volunteers who presented workshops and worked in small groups and individually with 217 students on the topics of communication, financial literacy, future planning, resume writing and interviewing. At the college level, 14 older adult volunteers worked collaboratively on group projects with 111 college students majoring in Information Science.
$24,936 spent$32,400 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $124,765.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $146k to $101k (−31%).
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: 2020 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of EMPOWERING THE AGES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Leah Bradley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $214k → $143k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 EMPOWERING THE AGES 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
EMPOWERING THE AGES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 EMPOWERING THE AGES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 60% · 2022 60% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of EMPOWERING THE AGES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
98% of EMPOWERING THE AGES 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. $403k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
EMPOWERING THE AGES INC's revenue grew 20% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EMPOWERING THE AGES 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
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 EMPOWERING THE AGES 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 EMPOWERING THE AGES INC?
- EMPOWERING THE AGES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $848,724 to it, the largest being AW Baldwin Charitable Foundation Inc ($420,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWERING THE AGES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $848,724 in grants to EMPOWERING THE AGES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWERING THE AGES INC?
- AW Baldwin Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWERING THE AGES 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 9 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