Mid-Shore Community Foundation
Five-county community foundation. Annual board meeting June 26 at the Tidewater Inn. 2026 grants opened July 1 and close October 1.
Briefing
Nonprofit highlights: the groups doing the work
Talbot runs on 501(c)(3)s as much as on the county budget — grant windows, crisis lines, and easements, not banquet photos.
For All Seasons
Mid-Shore mental-health and rape-crisis nonprofit. Therapy, advocacy, 24-hour crisis line. The number schools and deputies actually use.
Meals on Wheels of Talbot
Home-delivered meals and the quiet weekday route that keeps people in their houses. Already in Prime Life.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
St. Michaels waterfront museum and working shipyard — the county's largest cultural nonprofit campus.
Avalon Foundation
Easton's stage, film, and music house at 40 E. Dover. Hosts Voices of the Chesapeake during Waterfowl week.
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
Easements, not speeches. Talbot acreage passed 13,951 after the 2026 Swann Farm close.