Maryland · Nonprofit
UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC
UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,432 to it, the largest being STEPHEN J WOLFE JR PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($580,130). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $789k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Umps Care Charities Inc does
Mission
The umps care mission puts into action our established creed, "helping people is an easy call". Through our youth-based programs, professional umpires enrich the lives of at-risk youth, children coping with serious illness and military families by providing memorable, once-in-a-lifetime, baseball experiences. Umpires make baseball magic on baseball fields across the country and give children reason to cheer by bringing build-a-bear workshop experiences to them while they are undergoing rigorous medical treatment at hospitals. Through our scholarship initiative, we offer financial support to children adopted later in life. Our newest initiative, the official leadership program, teaches sportsmanship, leadership and mentorship through the lens of baseball. We also provide on-the-field umpire mechanics lessons to these teens from underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The blue for kids children's hospital program brings a crew of major league umpires to the bedside of children with life-threatening illnesses. Each crew brings a build-a-bear workshop right to the hospital room. While a hospital stay can be a frightening time for children and their families, the blue for kids program lifts the spirits of all involved. Children make stuffed teddy bears, puppies, dinos or monkeys while sharing high-fives and words of encouragement with blue for kids crew. Since inception, umpires have distributed more than 19,500 bears.
$161,967 spent32% of program spendingThe umps care charities all-star scholarship program is for children adopted from foster care in order to help provide a college education to students who otherwise may not be able to afford one. Umps care charities awarded more than $60,000 in scholarship funding in 2023 and more than $385,000 since the program started. All-star scholarships are open to children adopted at or after the age of 13 years or older to provide increased opportunities for advanced education.
$128,245 spentof which $59,300 as grants25% of program spendingUmps care developed a new program which we piloted in 2021 called the official leadership program. There is a growing crisis across the country with a shortage of sports officials impacting all youth sports. Through the official leadership program, umps care will be part of the solution by teaching social and emotional learning skills and umpiring mechanics while providing mentorship and a direct line to employment to teens in under-resourced communities.
$111,825 spentof which $33,708 as grants22% of program spendingThe umps care charities family care program was established to aid former professional baseball umpires who have fallen on hard times and are most in need and has expanded to include other members of the "baseball family and amateur umpires. Through charitable contributions, the family care program is there to assist those with short-term financial needs and helps bridge the gap until a permanent, long-lasting solution is in place.
$54,722 spent11% of program spendingMajor league baseball umpires offer memorable baseball experiences for children awaiting adoption, at-risk youth in mentoring programs, critically ill children, and military families through the blue crew tickets program. Each blue crew tickets vip experience includes great seats to the ballgame, a goody bag of 'all things baseball, and the unique opportunity to step onto the field for a souvenir baseball and photo. The baseball experience is designed to strengthen relationships of at-risk youth and adult caregivers. Since the program started in 2006, mlb umpires have welcomed more than 9,000 guests to games across the country.
$46,557 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $503,316.
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 2020 to 2021, from $536k to $770k (+44%).
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: 2021 13% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jennifer Skolochenko-Platt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $183k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 UMPS CARE CHARITIES 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
UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 63% · 2019 57% · 2020 40% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k 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
UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UMPS CARE CHARITIES 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC?
- UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,432 to it, the largest being STEPHEN J WOLFE JR PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($580,130). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,045,432 in grants to UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC?
- STEPHEN J WOLFE JR PRIVATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $580,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UMPS CARE CHARITIES 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.
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 24 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