Maryland · Nonprofit
WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,692 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION INC ($223,135). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $305k
- Net assets
- $886k
What Western Maryland Area Health Education Center Inc does
Mission
To improve access to and promote quality in health care through educational and other partnerships, we collaborate with local, state, federal, and private organizations working toward mutual goals of a fair national distribution of health professionals and the elimination of health disparities due to rurality, poverty, race, and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maryland health benefits exchange - to provide a connector entity that assists individuals with signing up for health insurance under the affordable care act.
$934,866 spent28% of program spendingAccess-ssp - reduce substance-related morbidity and mortality by optimizing services for people who use drugs and deliver services for people who use drugs using a harm reduction framework and approach.
$387,325 spent12% of program spendingHerc - healthy together focuses on improving health outcomes for patients with heart disease and substance use disorder in the georges' creek corridor and garrett county.
$740,603 spent23% of program spendingPos ahec - to recruit health care professionals to fill workforce gaps and increase health career education in public and private schools.maryland deptartment of health and mental hygiene - to assist the rural area health centers (ahecs) by providing funds to enhance training, recruitment, and retention of medical providers in rural areas.power peers - recruit, train, and provide adequate supervision to peer support workers.march - expand the number and diversity of healthcare professionals with abortion care training by increasing physician and apc students and practitioners' access to abortion education, increase the racial and ethnic diversity among healthcare professionals with abortion care training, through the expanation of providers to include physician and apc students and practitioners, support the identification of clinical sites in need of training, and expand contraceptive and abortion care access for women throughout maryland.healthy teen network - provide project management and training and technical assitance to implementation partners for implementing evidence-based programs with youth ages 13-19 intending to reduce rual maryland county teen birth rates, rural…
$1,223,598 spent$473,159 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,286,392.
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 2022 to 2023, from $970k to $1.4M (+39%).
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 96% · 2018 93% · 2019 90% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% · 2024 93% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% 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
Susan Stewart
Executive director
Board chair
Michelle Harman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $16.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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
WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 76% · 2019 90% · 2020 55% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57 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
WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.9M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$37k
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 WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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
91% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,692 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION INC ($223,135). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $304,692 in grants to WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- NATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $223,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN MARYLAND AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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