Maryland

State programs

34

Local offices

768

Nonprofits

20

Food sites

18

Services by kind of help

• Housing213
• Education173
• Legal help127
• Care100
• Money98
• Food80
• Work73
• Health60
• Safety47
• Other25

• We read official pages and trusted lists: county and city websites, state agencies, Feeding America, the Legal Services Corporation and community action networks.
• A research file counts only when it passes the same checks it must pass to reach Front Door. A file with a problem waits until it is fixed.
• Every service and organization names the page it came from and the day we read it.
• We rebuild the files with every release of Front Door. The API reads only these files, never our live database.

Each HSDS table, how many rows it has, and the fields we fill in. The free sample has the same fields.

• organizations815 rows, 97 in the sample

  id, name, alternate_name, description, website

• services996 rows, 100 in the sample

  id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date

• locations751 rows, 87 in the sample

  id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude

• service_at_locations901 rows, 88 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id

• phones1,676 rows, 175 in the sample

  id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id

• schedules43 rows, 4 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes

• addresses739 rows, 87 in the sample

  id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type

• service_areas1,092 rows, 124 in the sample

  id, service_id, name, description

• languages0 rows, 0 in the sample

  id, service_id, name

• taxonomies3 rows, 3 in the sample

  id, name, description, uri, version

• taxonomy_terms35 rows, 35 in the sample

  id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id

• attributes7,226 rows, 774 in the sample

  id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value

• Changes made by organizations that claimed their listing, and links we fixed after a check, reach these files later.
• Hours are listed for food sites. For offices and programs, call or check the source page.
• The API has no full-text search, ZIP code or distance filters yet. The files cover bulk use.

Please credit Front Door and say which release you used.

Front Door (localcarehub.org). Human services in Maryland, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10. CC BY 4.0. https://localcarehub.org/open-data/maryland

@misc{frontdoor_hsds_md_20261010,
  author = {{Front Door}},
  title = {Human services in Maryland, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10},
  year = {2026},
  note = {HSDS 3.3.1. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://localcarehub.org/open-data/maryland}
}

Our own research is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: the offices, the state programs, the descriptions we write and how we match records to kinds of help. Records from public sources keep their source's terms, and each one names its source. Check the source before you rely on a record.