Maryland · Nonprofit
UPPER SHORE AGING INC
UPPER SHORE AGING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,032,425 to it, the largest being THE CAROLINE FOUNDATION INC ($315,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Upper Shore Aging Inc does
Mission
The organization develops and provides a variety of programs for older persons in the upper shore region, which help maintain and improve quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Senior centers are designed to offer activities for senior citizens 60 years of age and older in three counties, kent, caroline, and talbot. The 5 senior centers focus on social and recreational needs, with an emphasis on offering health, wellness, nutrition, and safety programs. In fiscal year 2023, the centers served over 1,520 unduplicated persons.
$1,487,275 spentof which $312,121 as grants$36,000 earned by the program46% of program spendingCongregate nutrition meals on wheels congregate meals are offered at the senior centers in kent, caroline, and talbot counties. Meals served under the program must provide at least one third of the recommended dietary allowance established by the food and nutrition board of the institute of medicine of the national academy of science. The congregate meals program offers seniors an opportunity to meet new friends and engage in other social or health related programs. During fiscal year 2023, Upper Shore Aging Inc. Served 3,089 congregate meals to 367 unduplicated persons. Meals on wheels are delivered to home-bound older adults who cannot prepare a meal for themselves. During fiscal year 2023, Upper Shore Aging Inc. Served 90,060 home-delivered meals, to more than 1,401 unduplicated people.
$1,026,392 spentof which $737,259 as grants32% of program spendingUpper shore aging provided disease prevention and health promotion activities for senior citizens during fy 2024. These include health screening, nutrition screening, physical fitness/group exercise, and nutrition education. Health promotion includes evidence-based programming that have been documented to produce improved health outcomes.
$358,372 spentof which $73,590 as grants11% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 80,059, Grants and allocations 522, Revenue 0 GUARDIANSHIP AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE Program Service Expenses 286,845, Grants and allocations 14,141, Revenue 0 OTHER SERVICES 286,845
$366,904 spentof which $14,663 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,238,943.
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 $1.8M to $2.1M (+19%).
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 87% · 2018 85% · 2019 84% · 2020 86% · 2021 94% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% · 2024 91% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UPPER SHORE AGING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Herb Cain
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $17k → $368k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SHORE AGING 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 SHORE AGING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 SHORE AGING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 60% · 2021 60% · 2022 82% · 2023 76% — 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
50% of UPPER SHORE AGING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
100% of UPPER SHORE AGING 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. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
UPPER SHORE AGING INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UPPER SHORE AGING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.3M on record — $1.0M federal, $9.3M state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.0M
- Grant$9.3M
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 SHORE AGING 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
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UPPER SHORE AGING INC?
- UPPER SHORE AGING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,032,425 to it, the largest being THE CAROLINE FOUNDATION INC ($315,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER SHORE AGING INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,032,425 in grants to UPPER SHORE AGING INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER SHORE AGING INC?
- THE CAROLINE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $315,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER SHORE AGING 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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