Maryland · Nonprofit
MEETING GROUND
MEETING GROUND (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,591 to it, the largest being Silver Candlesticks Foundation ($60,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $433k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Meeting Ground does
Mission
We, the community of Meeting Ground, respect and serve persons at risk of, or experiencing homelessness by meeting basic human needs, connecting people to services, fostering spirtiual and emotional well-being, and advocating for those whose voices need to be heard with the goal of creating a path to a place they call home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mary randall center is a day program for those who are experiencing homelessness and are completely unsheltered. It provides a place to shower, get breakfast and lunch, do laundry and receive mail. Case management is also available to help move towards permanent housing. 225 individuals were served this past year.
$97,677 spent25% of program spendingWayfarer house is a transitional shelter for single women and heads of households with children. It offers case management to set goals to move forward so that permanent housing can be obtained. In the past year, 18 individuals were served through this program.
$110,762 spent28% of program spendingThe winter shelter was run with motel vouchers this past year due to covid. Meeting Ground always provides the emergency shelter for the county, therefore was awarded this funding for the motel vouchers so that those who are unsheltered had a warm bed during the coldest months of the year.
$47,981 spent12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$132,668 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $389,088.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $1.1M (−14%).
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 21% · 2018 40% · 2019 32% · 2020 43% · 2021 80% · 2022 71% · 2023 69% · 2024 69% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $20k → $6k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MEETING GROUND’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
MEETING GROUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 81% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of MEETING GROUND's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 MEETING GROUND
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
85% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cecil County Men's Shelter · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEETING GROUND: 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 MEETING GROUND?
- MEETING GROUND (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,591 to it, the largest being Silver Candlesticks Foundation ($60,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEETING GROUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $140,591 in grants to MEETING GROUND, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEETING GROUND?
- Silver Candlesticks Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEETING GROUND 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.
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 7 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