Maryland · Nonprofit
FRIENDS AWARE INC
FRIENDS AWARE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,196 to it, the largest being The Doug and Betsey Schwab and Family Foundation Inc ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What Friends Aware Inc does
Mission
Friends Aware Inc offers social, occupational, and residential opportunites in a caring atmosphere to individuals with disabilities. All individuals are challenged to realize their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Life enrichment program - the lec provides training for daily living and vocational skills. Friends aware encourages and assists individuals to participate in their communities as much as possible. Friends aware also provides subcontract work and sheltered paid employment to our clients in the vocational program.
$1,451,525 spent$1,479,197 earned by the program20% of program spendingResidential/personal support/community learning services - friends aware provides safe, comfortable, and attractive living accommodations for individuals. Support services are provided to individuals who choose to live in their families' homes, or who are capable of living on their own. These services include help with grocery shopping, bill paying, doctor visits, using public transportation, and obtaining funding to accommodate their handicap conditions.
$5,725,059 spent$6,220,185 earned by the program80% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,176,584.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $9.7M (−16%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 13% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of FRIENDS AWARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Mark Bittinger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $72.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FRIENDS AWARE 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
FRIENDS AWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
FRIENDS AWARE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196 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
FRIENDS AWARE INC's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS AWARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $163k on record.
- Grant$163k
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 FRIENDS AWARE 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FRIENDS AWARE 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 FRIENDS AWARE INC?
- FRIENDS AWARE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,196 to it, the largest being The Doug and Betsey Schwab and Family Foundation Inc ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS AWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $38,196 in grants to FRIENDS AWARE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS AWARE INC?
- The Doug and Betsey Schwab and Family Foundation Inc 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 FRIENDS AWARE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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