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GERMANTOWN HELP INC

GERMANTOWN HELP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,275 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($77,797). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$230k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$153k
Net assets
$18k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Germantown Help Inc does

Mission

Germantown HELP provides delivered emergency food and food pickup events; prescription assistance; and Thanksgiving and December holiday help to residents of Germantown, MD. We also partner with area churches, civic groups and neighbors on a variety of projects. We seek to provide assistance in a friendly, courteous, customer-service-oriented manner respectful of our clients.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Emergency Food Program: Provides emergency food to residents of Germantown, MD requesting help. In 2024, we provided 2,428 deliveries of food and hosted pickups for 250 families.

    $175,676 spent
    80% of program spending

  2. The Montgomery Holiday Giving Project provides food and gifts during the holidays. Germantown HELP provides administrative assistance, toy sorting, gift cards, food and delivery. In 2025, we had 794 referrals into the Holiday Giving Project.

    $40,589 spent
    18% of program spending

  3. Prescription Assistance: Helps to pay for doctor-prescribed medication. In 2025, we helped with 181 prescriptions.

    $3,379 spent
    2% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $219,644.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($53k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2018 Revenue 118 ($62k) Expenses 115 ($62k) Net assets 98 ($4k)2019 Revenue 102 ($54k) Expenses 103 ($56k) Net assets 42 ($2k)2020 Revenue 276 ($146k) Expenses 197 ($107k) Net assets 1033 ($40k)2021 Revenue 428 ($226k) Expenses 454 ($246k) Net assets 518 ($20k)2022 Revenue 150 ($79k) Expenses 170 ($92k) Net assets 183 ($7k)2023 Revenue 361 ($191k) Expenses 347 ($188k) Net assets 250 ($10k)2024 Revenue 341 ($180k) Expenses 328 ($178k) Net assets 301 ($12k)2025 Revenue 436 ($230k) Expenses 414 ($224k) Net assets 458 ($18k)
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Revenue (436)Expenses (414)Net assets (458)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2k to $40k (+2372%).

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$4k
$2k
$40k
$20k
$7k
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$18k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 22% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of GERMANTOWN HELP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
−$87
’18
−$2k
’19
$39k
’20
−$20k
’21
−$13k
’22
$3k
’23
$2k
’24
$6k
’25
1.0
months of
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

Cindy Majane

Exec Director/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed264455555
Joined··+0+0+3+0+1+0+0
No longer listed··2020100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $22k → $10k.

Funder
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funders
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5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 GERMANTOWN HELP 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

GERMANTOWN HELP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77% 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 GERMANTOWN HELP INC.

51%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 81% · 2023 50% — 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

80% of GERMANTOWN HELP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

77% of GERMANTOWN HELP INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $35k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states.

NY
VA
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GERMANTOWN HELP INC has grown faster than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like GERMANTOWN HELP INC

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In Maryland

Gaithersburg Help Inc74%Bethesda Help Inc74%Bowie Interfaith Pantry and Emergency Aid Fund Inc73%Prince Georges County Public Safety Assistance Program Inc73%Bea Gaddys Family Center Inc72%Germantown Global Connection Inc72%Gaithersburg Community Soup Kitchen72%Gaithersburg Meals on Wheels Inc71%

Nationally

Gaithersburg Help Inc74%Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program Inc74%Bethesda Help Inc74%Bowie Interfaith Pantry and Emergency Aid Fund Inc73%Prince Georges County Public Safety Assistance Program Inc73%Mechanicsville Churches Emergency Functions73%Gods Helping Hands73%Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry73%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GERMANTOWN HELP 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 GERMANTOWN HELP INC?
GERMANTOWN HELP INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,275 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($77,797). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GERMANTOWN HELP INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $153,275 in grants to GERMANTOWN HELP INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GERMANTOWN HELP INC?
GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $77,797 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GERMANTOWN HELP 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 8 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