How much did ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL grant in FY2023?

ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL reported 102 grants totaling $8,404,198 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL based?

ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL is based in MD.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL

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ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL

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$8.4M

Granted FY2023

102

Grants

Communities

$712k

Largest

01What you fund

0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Arts & Culture$30MRecreation & Sports$990kEducation$910kPhilanthropy$731kHuman Services$586kYouth Development$564kEnvironment$9kOther$2.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

theateragingolderworkshopspuppetwritersempowers

2020

advancement reliefkentlandsagingwaysempowerspuppetvolunteers

2021

relief advancementrelief capitalcollectingtakoma parkvolunteerfilmbethesda

2022

foodadvancementtheaterkentlandsaginglivesgive

2023

art printmakingteachadvancementjazzbethesdafilmaging

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k18 grants · $146k
$10k–50k40 grants · $983k
$50k–250k38 grants · $4.2M
$250k+6 grants · $2.5M

$38,731

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC$711,530
OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION DBA OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$504,368
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC$356,271
IMAGINATION STAGE INC$346,342
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$278,690
MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION DBA MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY MEDIA$267,394
LEVINE MUSIC INC$236,981
ADVENTURE THEATRE INC$217,302
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC$208,047
MARYLAND YOUTH BALLET INC$199,101
CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC$185,597
GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC$181,894
METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC$178,477
GERMANTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC DBA BLACKROCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS$152,867
MOCO KIDSCO DBA KID MUSEUM$141,323

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $586k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$35M · 96 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

96 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$35M

$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+116%

Still filing today

81%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

OT
OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION DBA OLNEY THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +81%
RT
ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +39%
IS
IMAGINATION STAGE INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +82%

Funded once

C
CCACCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +83%
IA
INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF BLACKS IN DANCEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $85k · revenue +867%
FT
FORUM THEATRE INC
one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Maryland Lyric Opera

Arts & Culture

Rhizome Dc

Supporting and showcasing the arts

Arts & Culture

Synetic Theater Inc

Washington DCs premier contemporary physical theater seeks to redefine theatre by devising a unique and innoivative blend of stage movement, dance, text, and music while investing in artists growth, and creating unforgettable visceral…

Arts & Culture

Greenbelt Cultural Arts Center Inc

The mission of the Greenbelt Cultural Arts Center (the Greenbelt Arts Center) is to provide a dedicated and sustainable entertainment and educational hub for fine and performing arts that enriches the life and cultural heritage of…

Arts & Culture

Baltimore Theatre Project

Artistic Programs

Arts & Culture

Seattle Artists

Cultural performances and childhood music education

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District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

4615 Theater Company Inc

Our mission is offer theatrical productions.

Arts & Culture

Rockville Little Theatre Inc

Community Theatre

Arts & Culture

Constella Arts

Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.

—

Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers

Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers mission is to enhance lives through Modern and Contemporary Dance and related art forms via education, outreach and performances, and other services for the community.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artstream Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bender Jcc of Greater Washington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%1/126

the rest of the field

12%

883/7,436

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/96

Grantees still filing

69/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$29,503,410Other$2,359,633Recreation & Sports$989,927Education$910,228Philanthropy$731,021Human Services$586,170Youth Development$563,910Environment$9,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Nora Roberts FoundationMD49.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Maryland Humanities Council Inc · Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation Inc · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · Maryland Historical Society Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · World Bank Community Connections Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: INSCAPE INC DBA INSCAPE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 261805981 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on INSCAPE INC DBA INSCAPE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Arts and Humanities Council?

Find your warmest path to Arts and Humanities Council through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arts and Humanities Council?

More from the funding graph

ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arts and Humanities Council?

More from the funding graph