Maryland · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,152 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($241,314). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $544k
- Net assets
- $0
What United Way of Southern Maryland does
Mission
Serves as agency for fundraising within southern maryland, and provides the allocations of collected funds to participating sec 501c3 organizations.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Serves as agency for fundraising within calvert county, md. And provides the allocation and redistribution of collected funds to participating sec 501c 3 organizations.
$290,320 spentof which $227,178 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $290,320.
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 2025 to 2026, from $366k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 8% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND’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. 8 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Yonelle Moore Lee
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $102k → $166k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Charles County Charitable Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 80% · 2019 68% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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
13% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
84% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND'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 $88k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456k 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.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND's revenue fell 80% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 123 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND: 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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,152 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($241,314). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $544,152 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $241,314 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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