Maryland · Nonprofit
GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP
GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP (Maryland) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,984,623 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Govans Ecumenical Development Corp does
Mission
Gedco is a strong and committed partnership of diverse faith based organizations and community groups that addresses some of the most complex challenges facing america's urban communities in the 21st century.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community services - provides programs to stabilize families, for both short and longer terms, to meet emergency needs and foster self-sufficiency. The organization gave out farmers' market food certificates to recipients and people can come once every 30 days to the cares food pantry.key statistics of the community services program for fy 2025 are as follows:-4,679 families were provided food packages-294 families were provided eviction prevention support of $129,854.-see schedule I for more details
$443,808 spentof which $278,991 as grants$70,119 earned by the program32% of program spendingReal estate services - undertakes real estate development activities in response to community needs and opportunities. This program includes developing an affordable retirement community in baltimore city at the former site of memorial stadium known as stadium place.
$491,439 spent$77,645 earned by the program35% of program spendingHomeless and supportive services - provides housing to help baltimore city and the state of maryland to meet their goals to end homelessness. These programs are comprehensive, providing supportive services and links to community resources, aimed at helping individuals to achieve the greatest level of self-sufficiency possible and achieve positive goals. This program includes harford house, and micah house. During the year 50 individuals were provided permanent supportive housing..
$253,411 spent$40,038 earned by the program18% of program spendingSenior services - provides housing and supportive services that help alleviate the affordable housing crises and allow elders to age in the community in a dignified atmosphere and provide activities for wellness. This program includes gallagher mansion, stadium place, senior network of north baltimore, and epiphany house.over 400 people are provided safe and affordable housing and supportive services. More than 1,000 older adults participated in programming and received information and resources at senior network of north baltimore.gedco provides management services to senior network of north baltimore.govans center for retired persons, inc. Operates the senior center under the name senior network of north baltimore (snnb).snnb's most popular classes include excercise programs, bible study, and bridge. Trips include day trips organized by baltimore city department of recreation and parks and overnight trips organized by snnb. Snnb provides programming for more than 1,000 older adults on an annual basis.
$214,734 spent$33,927 earned by the program15% of program spendingAsset management - gedco owns, in part or through partnerships, 12 buildings. Asset management provides oversight for the operations of these properties. Property management and community collaborations help bridge the residents with much needed supportive services. The properties are managed by third party property managers. Gedco assumed management of the ghem properties (gallagher mansion, harford house, epiphany house and micah house) effective march 1, 2023.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,403,392.
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 $3.3M to $6.3M (+90%).
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 35% · 2018 28% · 2019 17% · 2020 23% · 2021 18% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% · 2024 11% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nichole Doye Battle
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $196k → $373k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 50% · 2019 54% · 2020 17% · 2021 27% · 2022 43% · 2023 20% — 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
59% of GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
53% of GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record — $1.0M federal, $2.2M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- Grant$2.2M
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 GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 25 related entities
- Stadium Place LLC · disregarded
- Harford House Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Community Hub LLC · disregarded
- Stadium Place II LLC · disregarded
- Ghem Community Management LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP (Maryland) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,984,623 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $4,984,623 in grants to GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP 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 40 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