Maryland · Nonprofit
UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC
UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,119 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Upper Fells Point Improvement Association Inc does
Mission
Community Organization
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
State of Maryland Environment, Health and Justice Grant spending included design and installation of a mural on Lady Day Way depicting Billie Holiday. Traffic calming measures were developed for the block and will be implemented in early 2026.(See schedule O)
$45,385 spent77% of program spendingNewsletter printing, newsletters were distributed to every household in the Upper Fells Point area for each month of the year except December (See schedule O)
$4,058 spent7% of program spendingCommunity garden expenses included projects to replace raised beds and composter, including soil purchase and water. (See schedule O) Benefitted 30 gardeners and the space was used for several community events benefitting the community.
$2,297 spent4% of program spendingOther Program services: Insurance for the organization, community events including National Night Out, Winter Wander Scavenger Hunt, production and distribution of area transportation guide including bus routes. the guide was delivered to all community households with the monthly newsletter. The land use committee distributed sanitation guides to households not in compliance with Baltimore City code. The safety committee repaired cafe lights to ensure a safe walking at night. The beautification committee planted trees and mulched tree pits.
$7,334 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,074.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $62k to $14k (−77%).
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.
73% of UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $33 → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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
UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $91k on record.
- Grant$91k
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 UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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.
Public support
100%
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 UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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 UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC?
- UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,119 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,119 in grants to UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC?
- THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER FELLS POINT IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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