Maryland · Nonprofit
SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC
SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,721 to it, the largest being RICHARD A HENSON FOUNDATION INC ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $287k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $505k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Salisbury Urban Ministries Inc does
Mission
Develop and coordinate programs which serve and minister to the needs of the materially impoverished through feeding programs, prescription assistance, food pantry and any related activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Associate ministry - ministers to similar organizations with different racial backgounds. Includes health care and awareness programs.
$122,269 spent55% of program spendingLazarus program - assists families in crisis situations in wicomico, worcester, and somerset counties based on donations from churches, individuals and community organizations.
$98,538 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $220,807.
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 2019 to 2020, from $99k to $170k (+72%).
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 14% · 2018 16% · 2019 24% · 2020 30% · 2021 31% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Debbie Donaway
Executive director
Board chair
Zachary Wheeler
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $42k → $72k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES 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
SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 44% · 2019 50% · 2020 31% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 21% — 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
63% of SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
86% of SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.
Against its field
SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES 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 SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC?
- SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,721 to it, the largest being RICHARD A HENSON FOUNDATION INC ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $504,721 in grants to SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC?
- RICHARD A HENSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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