Maryland · Nonprofit
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,715 to it, the largest being FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ($84,843). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $722k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $866k
What Episcopal Community Services of Maryland does
Mission
Guided by our faith and commitment to social justice, and in collaboration with other, Episcopal Community Services of Maryland strives to address the injustice of sever poverty, which is embedded in communities and disempowers individuals.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
The Ark is the only state-accredited preschool in Baltimore City that provides language and social skills development programming to three and four year olds whose families are experiencing homelessness. The Ark offers an immediate solution for families without the resources to access traditional early childhood education opportunities. The Ark's core services include providing high quality education and social skills development to children who do not have regular, safe, secure, and/or adequate housing. The Ark's MSDE-Approved curriculum is traditional play-based learning, which goes beyond stimulating a child's intellectual curiosity. Each new Ark student is evaluated using the Child Assessment Protocol (CAP), which provides an accurate and meaningful evaluation of the children enrolled in a short-term emergency preschool setting. The CAP assesses language skills, word acquisition, listening and comprehension, gross motor skills, and social behavior, and is predictive of standardized test results. The Ark's assessment and education and program goes beyond standard preschool to provide Ark Children with sepcialized services during their enrollment. Students are monitored…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $95k → $14k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND’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
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 45% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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.
Organizations like EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- ECSM Holding Company · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND: 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 EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND?
- EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,715 to it, the largest being FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ($84,843). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $142,715 in grants to EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND?
- FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,843 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF MARYLAND 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), 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